Strange Pits And Caves On Mars 

Imagine accidentally falling to one of those pits while driving your rover and losing contact, nobody else knowing what happened to you

I love both the recent cave videos, really cool to see and think about caves on other worlds

Never thought that there could be so much lava tube caves on mars... WOW!

I've often wondered if there was a pit or cave deep enough below the surface of Mars where the air pressure would be higher and maybe pockets of trapped breathable O2. Would this be even possible?

Imagine an underwater lake in one of those pits/caves. As on Earth the caves may be less brutal and maybe even moderated like Earth's caves that stay a similar temperature all year.

I've been watching for 4 years, thanks for the great content Drek!

I want to live on the deepest pit on Mars

Excellent place to create cities inside lava tubes.

The return of the King 😌

I am your watcher since 2016 great content

There's a lot of exploration in store for future expeditions. It mind boggling.

I would think these caves are the best chance of finding Life or it's final remnants on Mars as they are shielded from UV radiation on the surface!

Dreksler as always brings top class video with insightful explanations and something new to learn. Keep going.

Thank you for this video! 👍

For me those photos are wonderfully beautiful. The sand patterns are just like some of my favorites here on Earth. !:- )

I love your videos man, I come back to this channel once in awhile and I am not disappointed, keep it up!!! Also more Mars videos pls, they are great. :)

Great work, you explain it well. Thanks.

This is really cool!

Great Video! I like the slow speech, gives me more time to take the pictures in 🤗

I will always enjoy this videos forever

That's good to know. We can build a base in a lava tube. It would provide protection from radiation and from sand storms.

Very well done and documented

love your vids

I would think a copter would be better for exploring the lava tubes, especially in an area where so many of them are so close together. Always a pleasure when you upload Drex!👍👍

Does he have any idea how much fun it is to hear him say "pits"? That's not the only word either. I love the way he talks.

Happy thanksgiving dreksler astral

Cheers from Toronto thanks for the content

Yoooo, Strange Pits sequel?

Pretty interesting!

I want a drone to fly down to these.

Hopefully once humans are on Mars in the 30s, they can explore some of those caves and send back image and videos. Would be really interesting! I wish we'd get a rover on one of the poles until then. I would love to see the ice formations there

Very interesting

God this is an informative channel!

that's a lot of pits.

We need to build home depot on mars

check out the thunderbolts project for alternative theories on this kind of stuff and how plasma played a role

👍 Cool 😎

Pitting like this is most likely electrical machining and scarring.

Those caves are the one place to look for life. There may be liquid water in one of those caves and life. But NASA doesn't look there. They would prefer to look on a desert plain. It's not a mistake, it's on purpose. Yes, it's hard to get to, but they haven't even tried. They may be able to find one they could drive right inside.

These pits are scary AF!

I wonder if there's life in those caves like how we have glow worms.

Visiting those caves would be amazing...they should build a rover able to enter there....

maybe one day they can send a rover or a helicopter in those caves and pits one day

Be interesting to send a drone like ingenuity into these lava tube pits in the future.

Possibly good places for bases. Find a small one, seal up the hole with a roof. C02 for plants, O2 for us.

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Muchas gŕacias !!

Perhaps the mt raineier ice caves are time travelling or in a different overlapping universe, hence appearing and disappearing. Or not.

Martian weird holes will be a good place to look for critters, live or fossil

Woulld be soo nice to have them in elite dangerous. :)

I'm sure that deep underground there will be microbial life on Mars.

Aw noice! I wonder if there are "unique" minerals in there, due to the extreme circumstance, from which they were formed??

Caves are probably the best shot a finding some past life or at least some type of microbial presence?

Those are where the Martian launch cannons are hidden, for those who haven't read (or listened to) their Wells...

I hope I get to take a holiday in one of those before I die.

anyone whos been paying attention knows those arent lava tubes. theyre secret annunaki bases.

Been watching and relaxin' to this channel for 30 years now. That's longer than my last two wives.

That's the voice of Norman the android from Star Trek's episode of 'I Mudd'.

We’ve known about these lava pits for decades on Mars. Yet we haven’t explored them ? That would be an excellent place to build a colony. A shield from radiation and dust storms. Any presumed sea cave’s definitely should be explored. Why are we running around on the radiated surface of Mars looking for evidence of past life when it probably retreated underground once Mars lost its water and atmosphere?

I hope Hamas. isn't making tunnels on Mars now....

I bet they are still more interesting than the caves in Starfield.

The thumbnail got me a little too excited and I ended up clicking on this not knowing what it was

Could we use Lava tubes as shelter?

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The lava tubes on Mars must be gigantic because of the lower gravity compared to Earth.

Oh yeah, these caves are definitely home to some space worms 🪱

Just like we first started off by living in caves on Earth… we will be doing the same on Mars

I bet any terrestrial planet has plenty of caverns.

I heard "babadook caves" instead of "lava tube caves" twice in the first part of this video. Had to rewind a few times.

There's a satellite around Mars that looks like an office projector? 😆

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primordial black hole craters

Ideal locations to build a Habitat. The protection from Ultraviolet sunrays is already in place. Why bother building a Habitat on the surface when empty lava tubes are there for the taking?

One of the pits is over 150 miles deep. Nothing to see here.

There used to be lots of water, so many of those pits would be sinkholes

This man loves the word "pbits"

Boy that’s the pits !……..

I thought Tharsis is pronounced with a hard T, not the TH sound. Wikipedia uses a Theta, which would be consistent with TH. The etymology of the word would be hard T. Anyone know which is correct?

If these are lava tubes and/or deep caves, could there be small pools and lakes of briny water? And, therefore, they'd run quite deep as they originated from magma coming from deep inside the planet. If we couple that with the fact we now know it's core is still hot and that it's not entirely geologically dead or inactive, could the pressure and temperature be enough for the very salty water to stay liquid? If so, could there be whole ecosystems that have lived and evolved in these havens with the pressure of millions of tons of rock, protection from surface radiation, and warmer temperatures? How far along might life have come if all of these factors, in fact, align and life has been evolving uninterrupted in the briny cave pools for as long as life has on Earth?

best candidate for life on mars would be in those holes

That's where the aliens live

That’s where the giant insect live 😳

Here’s a theory but what if mars water never vanished just went underground into like some type of subsurface ocean and water channels and more of a streeeeech but what if there’s like marten floura and fauna all living underground in a subsurface environment

That's where Lord Elon of Mars and his mole-people will live, assuming they don't get blown to pieces en route in Starship. Good video, though, thanks!

There is no debris on the bottoms of those "collapsed lava tubes"

You're one of the best creators on this app

drink a shot, whenever he says pit/s =) no, don't! you'll die.

Look like asteroid hits breaking through a porous shell surface.

Are these mountains at all? Or are they something else? If a mountain on Earth were 13 miles high isn't that above the atmosphere? If they are volcanic mountains could that be how Mars lost the atmosphere it must have once had to account for the surface liquid water that evidently once existed there?

That's the pits ! 😆🤣

Makes me wonder what could be inside those caves. Probably nothing, but still...

We also have sinkholes on Earth..

The way he says "pits" lol PEHITS

Looks like methane explosions!

I'm particularly interested in caves that are located where massive bodies of water once were. Because that could well be the place where some life is still active or at least traces of it are still present. In those volcano caves you will find nothing but impressive rock formations. And that's not what I'm looking for. It strikes me that NASA also selects dubious locations to investigate whether there is or ever was life in the first place. Instead of drilling through the Arctic ice cap for the water ice, they will send rovers to drive over a landscape full of dead rocks. Billions of euros are flushed down the toilet with these types of missions and it provides anything but conclusive evidence. If there ever is or was life, where are you most likely to find evidence of it? Especially in water or ice. Because that is where it is preserved. And so you are going to drill into the ice cap of Mars to see what can be found in the lowest water ice layer. And not these hopeless rover missions that cost way too much money. With all the technologies we have today, we have not gotten further than a few controllable cars on the surface of Mars. How do you think you can make progress from that? We have to drill into the ice sheet for the water ice, take samples of it and send them back to Earth for research. That's the only way you can determine anything concrete. The rest is a waste of valuable time and, above all, money.

I have an idea. Why not overlay different sized American Football stadiums onto he photos of the Mars depressions so the average Joe can get a real scale comparison that can be related to. You might get more watchers and subscribers.

Elon Musk: i'm gonna live in one of these caves!

Greek gods used to hangout on mars

Big rabbits.

Good place to hide stuff?