Talk:Lakes on Mars

Orphaned references in Lakes on Mars
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Lakes on Mars's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "NASA-20120327": From Robert Sharp (crater):  From Aeolis Mons:  From Exploration of Mars:  From Mars Science Laboratory:  

Reference named "stanhellas": From Hellas quadrangle: Martian Weather Observation MGS radio science measured 11.50 mbar at 34.4° S 59.6° E -7152 meters. From Hellas Planitia: Martian Weather Observation MGS radio science measured 11.50 mbar at 34.4° S 59.6° E -7152 meters 

Reference named "IAU-20120516":<ul> <li>From Life on Mars: </li> <li>From Robert Sharp (crater): </li> <li>From Aeolis Mons: </li> </ul>

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 15:55, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ All seem to have been fixed - possibly long ago by Herbrides. - Rod57 (talk) 11:41, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Images
Hello. I suggest to move the image gallery out of the introduction, and tidy all other galleries. Thanks, BatteryIncluded (talk) 15:52, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Have split the gallery out of the introduction - should probably move it further down article. - Rod57 (talk) 12:00, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Purple Liquid Lake on Mars
There is a purple liquid Lake on Mars at 5 degrees South, 89 Degrees West, with a couple of Islands in the Lake. Use Google Earth and click on the Saturn Button. Mike Clark, Golden, Colorado, USA.63.225.17.34 (talk) 18:08, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

Existing frozen lake on Mars
In 2005 the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter discovered that an (unnamed) crater in the martian far north — located at about 70.5° North and 103° East on the Vastitas Borealis plain — right now contains a frozen water-ice lake within it. Since the roughly circular lake appears in its photographs to sprawl across approximately 40% of the (35 km) width of the crater itself, this would make the lake about 14 km in diameter, or 7 km radius — producing an approximate area for the frozen-water lake of around 154 square km. According to the linked ESA web page, the lake ice (though they caution it's probably not just ice) rises 200 m (or 0.2 km) above the crater floor. Naively presuming that it _is_ all ice with an average depth of 1/2 of that — 100 m (or 0.1 km) — we arrive at a maximum volume for the nameless crater's water-ice lake: 15.4 cubic km of ice!

My question is: shouldn't an article about Mars's ancient lakes also mention and discuss the one (perhaps there are more!) that still presently exists?

Michael McNeil (talk) 08:05, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

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