could we really live on mars?

Answer 1

Man can live anywhere thanks to our ability to invent. Technology enables us to live underwater (http://www.designbuild-network.com/projects/Hydropolis/) , in space (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html), and eventually on mars or other planets.

Answer 2

Since Mars is so far away the astronauts have to be self sufficient. Technology needs to be invented to convert the natural resources on Mars into forms humans can utilize. The moon is only three days away ( by Apollo standards), this makes the moon a more feasible first step. The approach of earlier moon missions was to put your foot down and pick up some rocks. Settlement of the moon and mars is more challenging. A fascinating book called "The Case for Mars" by Zubrin discusses your question in detail.

Answer 3

There is a group of sophisticated amateurs who favor human exploration of Mars. It's called The Mars Society.

One significant problem with Mars that you don't hear enough about is radiation. Earth has a fairly strong magnetic field that block most of the incoming intense radiation from the sun ("solar wind") and deep space ("cosmic rays"). Mars has effectively no magnetic field so time spent outdoors would have to be limited. Some sort of shielding would be needed--a few feet of dirt or water would work.

Answer 4

right now, no, but maybe in the future. The problem is MArs' atmoshere, it need oxygen, and less Carbon Dioxide in the air. To live there, we'd need to blast the atmosphere with som kind of oxygen capusule so it has oxygen in the planet. Wed also have to grow plants with water, which there is none now on there, or make the trip to eath every now and then to get supplies, like food or water, clothing ect.

Answer 5

it would be hard a very expensive, even for just a hand full of people, but i would do it for a year if they asked me two,

then i'd come back and say "one time, when i lived on mars"
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by the way did you see stephen hawking and Ed witten recently said its human destiny to leave this planet if we don't intend to go extinct

Answer 6

Could Humans Live On Mars
Buffalo - June 22, 1999 - You think finding a place to park down here is hard. Try finding a place to land on Mars. That's what a group of leading planetary geologists will try to decide June 22-23 when they meet at the University at Buffalo for the Mars Surveyor 2001 Landing Site Workshop.
The workshop will be held in conjunction with the 1999 Planetary Geological Mappers meeting, also to be held at UB.

The Surveyor mission, expected to be launched in the Fall of 2001, will carry experiments designed to demonstrate technologies needed to support eventual human colonization of Mars, according to Tracy Gregg, Ph.D., UB assistant professor of geology and a member of the workshop organizing committee.

"For example, will we be able to extract useful materials, such as construction supplies and metal ores, from Martian rocks?" she asked. "And can we extract oxygen from the soils?"

The mission also will include experiments to help determine the composition of Martian rocks, the results of which will assist scientists in understanding the evolution of Mars, as well as determine if there are useful materials that can be mined to support communities on the planet.

Studded with giant craters and huge volcanoes -- including the largest one in the solar system -- the surface of Mars is a tough place to land anything, especially a remote-controlled vehicle equipped with tens of millions of dollars of equipment and exquisitely sensitive scientific instruments.

Gregg noted that while searching for evidence of life on Mars is always important, the Surveyor, which has a range of about 2 miles or 3 kilometers, can land safely only in certain places.

"Most of the places available for safe landings are not optimum places to search for Martian life," she explained. "Instead, we are trying to maximize the science return; in other words, to find a place that will give us the greatest access to the widest variety of different types of rocks in a small space."

Candidate sites are those near flood plains, which are similar to those sites where previous missions have landed, as well as places that are home to many different types of rocks, such as the point at which a volcanic plain intersects an ancient crater.

At the meeting, Gregg and volcanologist Mark Bulmer of the Smithsonian Institution will give a presentation on how their experience exploring undersea volcanoes using a remote-controlled vehicle may be relevant to missions on Mars.

The 1999 Planetary Geological Mappers meeting will include presentations of geological mapping studies and discussion of planetary geological- mapping procedures and issues.

Once the conference presentations are done, scientists will continue their work by donning hiking books and embarking on field trips in and around Western New York, courtesy of their UB hosts.

"The reason for the field trips is that there is some controversy over whether or not glaciers may have existed in the past on Mars," Gregg explained. "So we'll be showing these geologists who specialize in Mars what glaciated terrain and glacial deposits really look like."

The field trips will showcase the most fascinating features of Western New York's large-scale glacial geology, including Niagara Falls, the Niagara Gorge, the shorelines of the glacial Great Lakes and other geological features, such as drumlins, eskers, moraines and the Finger Lakes.

Answer 7

If u got a really cool space suit

Answer 8

1.the temperature is very cold.
2.There is no food or plants or animals there.
3.If you change your mind and you want to come back you will have to wait a long time until a spaceship come and take you back to Earth
4.If there is extraterrestrials there , I guess they won't welcome u well.
5.WHAT ON MARS YOU THINK YOU GONNA DO THERE?

Answer 9

Go try and if you make it come back and tell me. Good luck. don't get eaten by "martians!"

Answer 10

they have proved that if we took trees/plants there to make oxygen, it might be possible