Is their a possibility that mars could have an oil supply?

This is a very interesting question. There was a time in the not-too-distant past when no one had the slightest clue about how crude oil was formed on the Earth. However, there was much speculation on this topic, as you might imagine. Most people thought that oil formed in a similar manner to coal, from living organisms, most likely plankton, during the early part of Earth's history, probably in the Pre-Cambrian era. But there was a minority view that oil could have been primordial, coming from the original cometary bombardment that also gave us our oceans. Certainly when comparing the average comet's makeup with the present Earth's composition, there is a LOT of organic matter missing from the equation. Crude oil formation could account for some of this missing organic material. Saturn's moon Titan is thought to have oceans of hydrocarbons on its surface, making the theory not totally far-fetched. AMOCO oil company actually drilled a few test wells based on this theory, but they all turned up dry. Then, some evidence surfaced in the 1980's that made it clear that Earth's oil must have been formed by living organisms based on life remnant stuctures within the structure of some of the organic molecules found in crude oil. More recently, it has been shown that most of our crude oil is likely to have formed in the Jurassic period, during a time of unusually rich CO2 content in the Earth's atmosphere.


However, this does not totally rule out the possibility that there may have been some primordial oil formed on Earth way back that persists to the present. If any oil is found on Mars, this would support this possibility, although it is also possible that living things formed the Martian oil as well. As to whether finding oil on Mars PROVES the past existance of living things, I think not.


Mars does have a region east of Mare Acidalia called ';Arabia';. Maybe we could get George W. Bush to fund the drilling of a few test wells there. That would sure be fun!Is their a possibility that mars could have an oil supply?
No, probably not. Oil is formed from organic matter, especially of magroves in swamp areas. As Mars does not apparently have anything simalar to that, I doubt it has any oil. You never know though...Is their a possibility that mars could have an oil supply?
Not unless it had massive life present on it dozens of millions of years ago, as the oil on Earth is a product of ancient plant and animal life.





In other words, the chance is so tiny as to be nothing.