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by stcredzero 3490 days ago
But you don't get those at such low atmospheric pressure. Mars atmospheric pressure is around 600pa.

A mental exercise: Any place on Mars with higher than 600pa pressure?

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How about underground? How about the bottom of a glacier? No need to be "surfacist." ;)
An unsealed hole underground would have to be dug to the same depths as that crater. If you're pressurizing it, you'll probably target 1 bar to live in it, instead of 600 KPa.

A glacier that has the pressure to melt ice, would have more than enough pressure to keep it from sublimating. A rough estimate says that a foot or so of ice could provide over 600KPa of pressure, but that doesn't account for any means of keeping the water liquid or the ice solid. However, I wouldn't expect to actually find that on Mars. You might be able to keep water that way for a while until it froze again.