Can we live in Mars?

Question

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Uhmm.. I mean on Mars..

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Answer 1

You were right the first time. IF we dug out an underground station, yes, we could live there. Mars has too thin an atmosphere to breathe, and it's made of the wrong stuff for us. Also, it's not shielded from the sun, so the surface would be a dangerous place. But assuming that we could find a way to grow earth foods underground, we could indeed live there.

Answer 2

Maybe. The way Mars is now, people would need space suits and pressurized buildings to live there. The atmosphere on Mars is much thinner than on the Earth, only about one percent as dense. Most of that thin air is made up of carbon dioxide. There is very little oxygen. It is also very cold. Daytime temperatures might reach above freezing only near the equator, and even there the night time temperatures would be far below zero.
It might be possible, however, to change the climate of Mars to make it more like the Earth. This planetary engineering is called "terraforming". Of course it has never been tried yet, but it is an exciting idea. Some scientists think that terraforming is possible, but others are skeptical.

Basically, terraforming Mars would be done by putting the greenhouse effect to work for us. The greenhouse effect happens when carbon dioxide gas (CO2) acts sort of like an insulating blanket to trap heat in the atmosphere. The polar ice caps on Mars are made up of both water ice and dry ice. Dry ice is frozen carbon dioxide. The idea is to melt the polar ice caps by spreading some kind of dark dust on them. The dark coating would absorb heat from the sun, raising the temperature enough to melt the frozen carbon dioxide underneath. The CO2 would go into atmosphere, making the air denser and creating a greenhouse effect which would raise the temperature even further. Eventually, it would get warm enough to melt the frozen water in the polar caps and under the ground. This liquid water could then be used to grow plants that would further darken the surface of the planet, holding in more heat, and converting the CO2 in the air into oxygen for people to breathe.

I wouldn't start packing a suitcase yet, though. Even if it would work, terraforming could take a long time. Some estimates are ten thousand years or more.

Answer 3

Our ability to live on Mars is the same as our ability to live in space. Mars has no shielding from harmful solar radiation, no water, no atmosphere. We would have to construct something like a space station on the surface, with supplies, in order for people to live there.
I see no sense in this, since the cost of re-supply is huge and the distance makes our ability to resupply a station doubtful.

Furthermore, some tests have been performed here on earth to determine if large self-sustaining structures can be built to grow their own food and recycle oxygen - none long term successes.

Answer 4

In Mars... no way. On it... that's another think.

So, theoretically, we can live on Mars. There seems to be ice in the polar regions.
The teperature is not a big issue. It varies from -120C to 20C (well, i can't picture myself eating icecream on Mars...).
The two big issues are: no atmosphere and costs.
Right now, we are better off on Earth. But the Sun is expanding. In a couple of thousands of years, Earth will be too hot for us, and Mars just right (give a search for 'the goldylocks zone, earth'). Then people will look to Mars as a home away from home.
But now... i just can't see it happening.

Answer 5

Not yet no. Too far away. If you were dumb enough to go out of your spacecraft without a spacesuit on Mars, you would choke because of so much carbon dioxide ( CO2) in the atmosphere.

Answer 6

Perhaps. We would need to get there first which is a problem,. With the lack of atmosphere drilling into the planet would be difficulty and temperature towards the core would be hot so we probably couldn't live in it

Answer 7

Inside mars? I dunno.

Theoretically its possible I suppose. They are planning on making a moon colony within the next 10 years.

Only potential issue I see is if you lived there and an asteroid hit... KABOOM!! You'd be toast. Same as on Mars. THere is no atmosphere to help protect you.

Answer 8

Mars is uninhabitable. Too cold and dry. And the radiation would kill us. Poisonous atmosphere.

We would need space suits to go outside. Our homes would be like having spaceships to live in.

Answer 9

No for a few reasons. Its atmosphere is made of
95.32%Carbon Dioxide
2.7%Nitrogen
1.6%Argon
only 0.13%Oxygen
0.07%Carbon Monoxide
0.03%Water Vapor
trace of neon, krypton, xenon, ozone, methane
The other reason is that it is averaging much too cold to live on there for much time.
Hope this helps : )

Answer 10

I seriously doubt it. Look how many years it took to send a rover there, we'd be in pretty bad shape when we arrived. Our tecnology isn't advanced enough yet to allow the "warp speeds" needed for deep space travel yet. It would be too extreem for the human body to endure.