2006-09-07 13:01:26 · 7 answers · asked by nyinyi y 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Mars is much colder than the Earth. It has an atmosphere but it is a very very thin one so even if it were oxygen we'd still die on it - and it is NOT oxygen, it is carbon dioxide. So you'd need an enclosure with heating and its oxygen supply. Using renewable energy (sun) and local minerals you could probably set up a factory to make oxygen, and you could heat your enclosure.
Water? Apparently there are lots of ice below the surface. So you could imagine installing machines to mine the ice and melt it. But for the time being there is no liquid water.
Food? There's no food there so you'd need to grow your own (it would be too expensive to have cargo spaceships bring you food)
Bottom-line: human life is not possible on Mars without help. But with technology, life would be possible there.
2006-09-07 20:49:00 · answer #1 · answered by AntoineBachmann 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No oxygen in the atmosphere would be a good start for not living there.
There is carbon dioxide, so theoretically, plants might have a chance. But the atmosphere is so thin that the plants would not make enough oxygen for animals to exist, like they did in the Earth's early history.
Also, there is no water - not in any appreciable quantities.
Living there would mean living in artificial biospheres. See the movie "Mission to Mars". They feature an environment in that movie, though I would imagine that a workable one would have to be very much larger than the one they depict.
Note that experiments on Earth to live in that kind of artificial biosphere have failed miserably.
2006-09-07 13:08:20 · answer #2 · answered by nick s 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Common sense doesn't seem to have much sense...for Mars does have an atmosphere. What is a problem for life on the surface, however, is the lack of magnetic field and ozone layer...which means a lethal level of UV radiation.
2006-09-07 13:44:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
specific, possibly. the biggest undertaking is determining a thank you to maintain the ambience from being lost to the strain of the image voltaic winds. Earth's magnetic field does the activity for us, yet Mars does not have as reliable a field. If we are able to locate a thank you to function ecosystem as speedy or quicker than it is lost, it will make the undertaking plenty less difficult. each and every thing after it is in basic terms a count of engineering and time.
2016-12-12 04:30:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No Oxygen, too cold, too many dust storms, too much UV rays, not enough pressure, and nothing that we could live off. Oh and no liquid water, but there could be frozen water.
2006-09-07 14:11:39 · answer #5 · answered by sgcfx949 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mars is too cold and there is no oxygen!
2006-09-07 14:08:30 · answer #6 · answered by Krissy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No atmosphere or liquid water..
Too cold, cosmic rays...
No food....
2006-09-07 13:07:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋