I might be wrong here, but I was under the impression the atmospheric pressure on Mars was so low that water can not exist in its liquid state, and an unprotected human would literally have their blood boil if not inside a pressurized suit. Is this accurate?
Xandra: we have frozen water on Earth, too, in the coldest regions. The ice we've found on Mars is in Mars coldest regions. I'm thinking more like on the equator, where it can be up to 70 degrees.
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Answer by eddygordo4life
Your skin would melt before the heat could reach your skin.
but yes, if your skin could handle it, your blood would boil.
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It would be similar to exiting a plane at about 60,000 feet.
ReplyDeleteYou would need an electric cooker to boil because the atmosphere is too thin for a regular cook fire.
ReplyDeleteBut the air is thick enough you would just suffocate gasping for air if you did not have a space suit. Nitrogen would form bubbles in your blood and give you "the bends" from rapid decompression. But that is just because nitrogen would come out of solution, not because you blood was boiling.
Well considering the fact that water on Mars is frozen your blood would most likely not boil.
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