A question here, behaviour of water on Mars Options

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A question here

There are signs that in the past there was liquid water on Mars. So lets assume thats true.
Since the gravity on Mars is much lower than on Earth, so how does water (waves) behave on Mars compared to Earth?
Someone did say, that waves would have been much higher but also much slower. Is this true? Does anyone have an animation where you can see a waive on Earth in comparsion to a wave on Mars?

Thanks

[Greg Hullender]

Here's a couple of useful comments from a NASA site:

"According to the model, the highest surface pressure, 12.4 millibars, occurs at the bottom of the Hellas Basin (a low-lying area created by an ancient asteroid strike). The problem is that the boiling temperature there is only +10 °C. It can't get very hot or the water will boil away."

"There are 5 five distinct regions where we might sometimes find surface water: in the Amazonis, Chryse and Elysium Planitia, in the Hellas Basin and the Argyre Basin. Together they comprise about 30% of the planet's surface. That's not to say that liquid water really does exist in those places, just that it could."

Here's the link for the whole thing:

http://science.msfc.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast29jun_1m.htm

--Greg