Water, Water, Everywhere – Where To Drink In The Solar System

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A frozen lake of water-ice on the floor of a 35 km wide impact crater on Mars. Copyright ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)

Science fiction movies about aliens threatening the Earth routinely ascribe them the motive of coming here to steal our resources, most often our water. This is ill thought-out, as water is actually extremely common.