Except that the picture doesn't show a pond, liquid water cannot exist on the surface of Mars because the atmospheric pressure is too low, if there was a pool of liquid water on Mars it would just boil away. The extreme thinness of Mar's atmosphere has been known about for a long time and verified from sources other than NASA (if you are willing to spend the money and time you can even do it yourself). The properties of water have been known for an even longer time and are extremely well supported, and are quite easy to verify.

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