QUESTION: Water infiltration into Mars soil

What is the behavior of water infiltrating into the Mars soil? Is it the
same as on Earth?

ANSWER from Jeff Plescia on June 28, 1999:
The  basic  hydrologic  laws  will  be  applicable  to Mars.  The only
difference will be in a lower gravity.  We really have no data on  the
subsurface physical properties of the  martian soil.  In fact it's not
all together clear how the material forms.

The information that we have on the physcial properties was  published
in the December 1997 Science  issue on Pathfinder and USGS  Prof Paper
1389 on Viking.

Jeff Plescia
U. S. Geological Survey
Astrogeology Program