Mars Might Have Water Encapsulated Inside It's Crater

In my previous posts, I mentioned Jezero Crater in Mars and its similarities with Lake Salda in Turkey. In this post, I will be writing about how Mars is extremely similar to our world, Earth. In those posts, it was briefly mentioned that Mars once had water on its surface. Today Mars is extremely dry at first glance, this creates many questions such as what happened to the water on Mars's surface? Is it possible that one day Earth may have a similar change? I think with further investigations to Mars it would be possible to answer these questions.  

There are some theories about where the water went such as a study that proposes that a combination of two mechanisms – the trapping of water in minerals in the planet’s crust and the loss of water to the atmosphere – can explain the observed deuterium-to-hydrogen signal within the Martian atmosphere. So water went nowhere, again a reference to the previous post about Jezero Crater, there was a moisturized section below the hard crust of Mars. Water is trapped in the crust, now another question might arise, why is the water encapsulated? This question will be answered when we have more data about the climate of Mars. 

Scientist have examined yet another crater that has extreme similarities with an Earth lake. "They also noted the presence of a distinct set of ridges that face upward toward the crater wall, which bear a striking resemblance to ridges on Earth that formed at the edges of glaciers. " 

A topographic map shows the raised ridges (dark yellow) and low-lying areas where water ponded (white). Credit: NASA/Boatwright et al./Brown University

For this reason, I think this is a very interesting topic when considering the world's climate is getting hotter by the day. Earth is very similar to Mars geologically, maybe they had similar climates. Maybe the data and information collected by the rovers would be somewhat beneficial for Earth's climate issues and how to prevent the Earth from becoming a dry crust with little to no life on it. 

Sources:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210316132106.htm

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/new-study-challenges-long-held-theory-of-fate-of-mars-water

https://www.universetoday.com/150726/a-lake-in-a-martian-crater-was-once-filled-by-glacial-runoff/