Mars Colonization: The Future of Tomorrow Science fiction writers and astronomers alike have looked to Mars as the ultimate exploration. To conquer the Red Planet is a dream, and this dream might come sooner than one may think. Less than fifty years ago, humans landed on the moon. Now, we are creating plans to colonize Mars! With space programs like Mars One, SpaceX, and NASA ready to make this dream come true, people are still understandably nervous. Though there are clear risks, upcoming Mars missions should be carried out.
This isn’t just an impulsive decision, there have been plans in the works to go to Mars for approximately 65 years (Roper). Currently, there are three major space programs planning on carrying out this mission: Mars
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We have colonized all of the habitable land on our planet, and it will only be a matter of time before we reach out into the dark depths of space for a new planet to call our own. One day, Earth won’t have enough available resources to sustain our rapidly growing populations, global warming could kill us all, or perhaps a nuclear war could occur. Regardless, we can’t stay stationary and sit around for our ultimate demise (Houck). We as a race aren’t ones for sitting around anyway. We are natural born explorers! This has been an important part of our history. And after all, “colonizing Mars is not very different in cost and size than that of the Mayflower crossing the Atlantic Ocean in 1620,” (Bicks). Though colonization has had negative effects in the past, with our newfound knowledge in environmentalism, astronomy, and ethics, we could realistically and safely colonize …show more content…
This isn’t something we can simply ignore. Earth won’t last forever, especially the way we are treating it. Rather than ignore the unavoidable future, we must look to Mars. In order to successfully carry out this mission, the space programs involved need all of the support that they can get. Not only should we stand by what they have to say, but help to fund these projects as well. Additionally, patience is a virtue. We need to take our time and avoid as many mistakes as possible by educating ourselves on martian environment, how to advance our technology, and how to successfully undergo this mission in general. If we do indeed carry it out, it will have a massive impact on science and humankind as a
Many feel that the United States should lead a crewed mission to discover the planet of Mars. Mars One, a settlement, has started a goal to initiate human life on the Red Planet. However, are humans really capable for Mars? There are two sides of the argument. Many are agreeing on starting the mission while others are contracted by the idea. I, for one, believe the mission should not take place. Difficulties NASA has to overcome, the safety of the trip, and the costs of the whole mission are many of the opposing factors of starting a journey to the Red Planet.
But what about a planet more than 200 times farther away. If we can colonize on Mars the whole world will believe that anything's possible. People will never give up and keep trying to reach their goals. Although people on Earth may be mad that scientist used 6 billion dollars, but it went to good use. It was used to giving hope and making people believe. Now we should go reach our dreams by going to Mars.
Imagine going on a six billion dollar rocket ship and never seeing your family or friends again. The astronauts will risk their lives because it is a dangerous expedition and could easily fail if the people die from lack of oxygen. Colonizing Mars is a terrible idea there is no natural source of water, if Mars One sends them they cannot come back once they arrive there, and someone could get sick and die before they get there.
Visiting Mars is even harder than that, with a whole additional set of problems. We can probably visit Mars in the next 20-30 years, but colonization is something on a much larger scale that we really don't have the resources available to do, unless we're willing to make substantial sacrifices, and continue those sacrifices since an off-world colony won't be anywhere near self-sustaining. The Moon will likely be the first bases in our lifetimes, and possibly Mars. Serious colonization of either isn't likely for decades at
Added to the economic costs to America, a venture to Mars causes substantial risk to the society. The environment and society are very important to human survival on Earth. Even though some people feel that exploring Mars may help understand the Earth better, and going to Mars will be a great scientific milestone, in my opinion exploring Mars is a bad idea. The atmosphere on Mars is about 100 times thinner than earth and it is not suitable for us to breath. It contains about 95% of carbon dioxide and little or no oxygen. This will make it very difficult for humans to survive there. Unlike Mars, which is not protected and is exposed to everything, the Earth is protected by the ozone layer. Exploring Mars will be dangerous to humans and very expensive to taxpayers. This will take years of planning and the mission will take years instead of days. The astronauts who go there may run out of oxygen and even fall sick. They will be unable to just return at any time. They have to wait until the earth aligns with Mars before they can return. All this could take months or even
That is a question many people ask and have been asking for quite a long time. Is the answer just because the process is taking a long time or is the reason bigger then that? According to news.nationalgeographic.com “humans put all of their ideas and efforts into working on the mission but they've never left the drawing board.” NASA’s preparation for the trip to Mars has taken at least 70 years (Heres Why, 2017). Many people are still scared about new missions because they're reminded of the Apollo 1 tragedy in 1967. There are many problems that humans could face if they went to Mars such as, they will need enough water, food, oxygen, etc. There is also the risk of being exposed to radiations from spending years in space (Choi, 2017). “It’s a choice, not an imperative” says John Logsdon a professor at the George Washington University’s space policy institute, many may have the same beliefs as him, but one day traveling to Mars could become an imperative and humans need to be ready and prepared for that day (Heres Why, 2017).
One large project that is being pursued is colonizing mars with a human population. This will mold the future and newer generations. It can make us question the future and what lies ahead. It has been said that it will take no more than 50 years to fulfill the colonization of mars.
Should humans really risk leaving earth forever to colonize Mars? There are so many high death risks! Colonizing Mars could be dangerous and risky due to deadly dust storms, a sub zero average temperature, and radiation that could possibly kill you.
There is no denying that simply reaching Mars, let alone colonizing it, is a very expensive and dangerous mission, with no guarantee of success. Lynda Williams, a Master of science and physics teacher at Santa Rosa Junior College, is one such skeptic. While she acknowledges the fact that man’s time on Earth is finite, Williams (2010), in her article “Irrational Dreams of Space Colonization,” says that “we have five billion years, plus or minus a few hundred million, to plan our extraterrestrial escape” (p. 4). Williams argues that the only real, immediate threats that the Earth is faced with are the destruction of its environment by climate change and warfare and depletion of natural resources. This brings up a question of morals and ethics: “should we put our resources into developing human colonies ... or should we focus all of our energies on solving and mitigating the problems that create these threats on Earth?” (Williams, 2010, p. 5). Ultimately, it is a question of ensuring the future of humanity on another world versus maintaining the planet that humanity currently
Now we are a step closer to making it our second planet that humans have lived on. But there is a problem! We as in humans have spent billions upon billions of dollars on the trips to the moon and sending a drone to Mars, Pluto, etc... But why are we trying to find a way to get to another planet and not trying to save this one. Lets fast forward a couple thousand years right! We have made our way to Mars and concurred it. What are we going to do to our sweet mother earth. Are we going to leave it destroyed or will we still care. The only thing that is going to happen if we come to Mars is the same thing that happens on Earth. We are going to destroy Mars as well. We are going to live there and then destroy it in a mater of millions of years. Why do we have to move to another planet when we can just stay and fix
Following the successes of the abovementioned missions, NASA has many additional missions planned for the future, specifically in the prospect of establishing a human settlement on Mars. In fact, National Geographic stated in their article, “Future of Spaceflight: To the Moon and Beyond”, “NASA has an exciting new vision of future spaceflight - the return of humans to the moon by 2020 in preparation for visits to Mars and possibly beyond” (National Geographic). If mankind is slated to return to the moon as soon as is predicted, it can be reasonably inferred that humans will set foot on Mars not long afterwards.
If the Earth had some sort of mass destruction and was no longer usable we would need somewhere to go. And Mars is the closest place to go. If we didn’t go to Mars and save what we have then we will soon run out of resources here on Earth and then we will have nothing left. It is better to have everything done now than later when we can’t and don’t really have a chance to get anybody over there to start that new world.
The trip, colonizing, and supplying Mars could cost up to one-hundred billion dollars. Plus, with all the things humans have to fix on Mars, like the atmosphere and that there is no oxygen on Mars already. the trip is not worth America’s time and money. One-hundred billion dollars could go towards making Earth more livable. Plus, even with that quantity of money, we still can not get the astronauts back if they are sent up in 2025 because of the technology.
Earth is overpopulated and Mars has the potential to become a wonderful environment to live in. There are people who would jump at the chance to be able to live or go to Mars. Global warming has become a looming issue for the people of Earth. Mars has very little atmosphere and people need at
The moment humans have been waiting for for decades is finally here. The first manned flight to the planet Mars, the furthest terrestrial planet from the Sun. After a century of only dreaming, it has finally become a reality. So many years of planning went into making this first launch possible. Mars’ orbit is the most eccentric of any planet in the Solar System. At it’s fastest it moves at a speed of 26.50 km/s, slower than the Earth’s and at it’s point closest to Earth it is 55,700,000 km away [1]. All the calculations to time it just right, all the brainpower of engineers working night and day, all the years of selecting who would be the first man to ever get this close to our planetary neighbor.