Is there oil on Mars? Both of these oil production methods can produce oil on Mars, but they are difficult to use.

Oil, known as the "blood of industry", is one of the most inseparable sources of energy and materials in the world today, which is embodied in gaseous, liquid and solid hydrocarbon mixtures. Oil exists in the strata of the earth, so will there be oil in the strata of Mars?

To discuss this problem, we must first understand how oil is formed. It is generally believed that oil is formed by the long-term evolution of animal and microbial remains in ancient oceans or lakes. This is a well-known saying. This view holds that oil is deposited from biological debris and is non-renewable. According to this statement, will there be oil on Mars?

We all know that Mars is a lifeless planet. At least so far, no life has been found on the surface of Mars. So since Martians have no life, it should be said that there will be no oil on Mars, but the formation of oil will take millions or even hundreds of millions of years. So did Mars have life in ancient times? If there were a large number of creatures like the earth at that time, there might be oil in the strata of Mars.

By calculating the evolution of the solar system and judging the surface topography of Mars, astronomers generally believe that there were rivers, lakes and oceans on the surface of ancient Mars. The existence of liquid water also shows that there is a suitable temperature on Mars. Since there is liquid water and suitable temperature, there is likely to be life on Mars. On earth, primitive algae once released a lot of oxygen in the atmosphere, and Mars may have gone through a similar stage. Therefore, ancient Mars was not short of oxygen, so its environment would support the existence of animals, and the remains of these creatures evolved into oil after a long time in the Martian strata. So, if there was life on ancient Mars, there should be oil on Mars.

However, the formation of petroleum is also called petrochemical oil, that is, inorganic formation, which means that hydrocarbon elements form organic matter at high temperature and high pressure, similar to the formation of simple organic matter such as methane. This oil-forming theory has not yet been finalized, but it has also been accepted by many scientists. If oil can be formed in this state, there should be a lot of oil on Mars. Just like our earth, there should be oil on many terrestrial planets.

Judging from the above two situations, it is entirely possible to have oil on Mars, but if oil can only be formed at 1, the possibility of having oil on Mars will be much smaller, because the existence of life on Mars in ancient times is only an illusion, and so far, human beings have not seen the phenomenon of oil or natural gas spilling on the surface of Mars, but only noticed a small amount of methane spilling.

But it is still too early to judge whether there is oil on Mars, because even if there is oil sometimes, we can't use it. Only when we humans can immigrate to Mars can we find a way to use it, and even if there is oil on Mars, we can't use it on its surface, because the atmosphere of Mars is basically carbon dioxide, with very little oxygen content. Fuel extracted from oil cannot be burned and used on the surface of Mars as it is on the earth. Only in the closed base built by human beings, the air content inside is similar to that of the earth's atmosphere, and petroleum fuel can be burned, but the oxygen consumption in the closed base is very large, so it is useless to have oil on Mars unless the Martian atmosphere is transformed into the earth.