 except for the the dry tropics below 30 degrees latitude there is near surface ice almost everywhere in the planet you get above 30 degrees latitude and you're going to find ice very quickly below the surface and and that's been now found almost routinely now from orbital images and so mars is not a dry planet it has lots and lots of ice and lots a lot of water near the surface and so it's got the resources for settling the colony we've now confirmed that from