Fun fact: if you wanted to keep an open-air swimming pool on the surface of Mars, you'd have to keep it heated at a temperature exactly between 0°C and 0.5°C (about 32°F). Because the atmospheric pressure on Mars is so low, water would boil if its temperature got any higher.
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Now, fun medical puzzle: if you took off your spacesuit on the surface of Mars, what would immediately happen to you? Would you...
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I'm sure the folks who made The Martian had to figure this one out
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Salt water pool perhaps?
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Would it start boiling, but also get colder and freeze eventually? I'm having a hard time figuring the full cycle until it's stable.
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Very likely you never get to see water (you only have ice -> vapor transitions) if you trust the atmospheric pressures reported for mars in wikipedia. To see water, you might have to increase the pressure in the martian sauna!
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