I was thinking isn't possible for us to bring water and air into mars for there to be life?

Question

Now I know we prolly don't have the machine to do it but my question really is if we had the technology to bring oxygen and water into mars would it work for us to live there?

Lets not think of the money my question is if we had all the machines to do it and bring all the oxygen necessary would this work? that is my question don't consider money etc

Answer 1

With current technology I think it is unfeasible. But take for example what we have been doing here on earth for the past hundred years or so with greenhouse gasses. If you could make machines which could release enough of these gasses into the atmosphere you could theoretically heat the planet. It would take more than a hundred years, but a gradual thickening of the atmosphere through greenhouse gases would allow the planet to trap the internal heat as well as the heat from the sun thus warming and melting the ice at the poles and underground if there is any. If there is enough to form an Ocean or if water could be some how transported from earth you're one step closer to habitation. By introducing naturally occurring microorganisms (if there not already there) you could produce oxygen without having to transport water. Lets keep in mind I'm no scientist all this is kinda off the top of my head based upon the discovery channel and various other networks. I also believe that if we were to try to colonize mars the genetic altering of plants and small organisms on earth would have to come into play. All in all I give it another hundred or so years before we find a way to comfortably get off this rock we call earth.

Answer 2

Mars doesn’t have enough gravity for it to hold on to the air and water. Mars has gradually been losing its air and water for a long time, to the point where it has almost no air left, and only traces of frost for water. Besides, it is so cold (far from the sun) that any water there would freeze. We could only live on Mars in enclosed environments. We would have to take with us all the air and water and food and everything else we would need. Our best be might be to push asteroids containing water ice and frozen oxygen into orbit around Mars, so that we can replenish our supplies without having to come all the way home. Read a classic S/F story, The Martian Way, about getting water from the asteroid belts.

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Answer 3

Only nature can do such things on a grand scale.

We cannot afford to build a rocket to go to Mars... much less convert Mars into Earth.

Eventually... we will have a colony on Mars... but it will be like a space station.

We have the technology to build a space station. If you could build something over 50 square kilometres... you could have 2 million people living in it confortably and produce their own food and water. It would be an echo system which would replicate the conditions on Earth.

The problem is... How do you take the material to Mars to build it?

Answer 4

Mars is bloody cold, water will freeze, unless you are in a controlled environment, which would take heaps of power. Air will fly up and away outside, there isn't enough gravity to keep it, so again, only in a closed environment.
At current technology, we could not live outside some sort of capsule on Mars. We could live there if we sent heaps of power, that would take a dedicated millionaire, and what would be achieved? Far as we know, nothing!

Answer 5

Yes. It is definitely possible. However, rather than restructuring the entire atmosphere of Mars (which would be absolutely impossible for humans to do at this time) we would simply build structures on the surface which could sustain human life. I believe it is possible that we might see such an event within the next 50 years. Keep Looking Up!!!

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Answer 6

There is already water on Mars, although it is all frozen or underground or both. There is air too, Although not much, and it has almost no oxygen. But another problem is that the soil chemistry is very caustic. Earth plants could not grow in it.

Answer 7

yes and no, in order to Staten life we need more the just o2 and water we would need an atmosphere to protect us from harmful rays, we would also need to warm the plant up about 250*f before we even tried the surface temp on mars is -255*f on average and it has storms that make a hurricane look like a leaf blowing in the wind. To be honest we would be better off living under ground towered the core where it is warm and safe from UV rays. I hope this helps.

Answer 8

Its called terraforming mars they believe its possible because of its nitrogen rich atmosphere it would take some doing nuclear bombs perhaps to create a unnatural greenhouse effect for oxygen and plant to start growing. I think its possible but mars would have to as accessible as japan from new york. Meaning Travel there would need to be in hours not years.

Answer 9

It wouldn't be possible to transport enough water and oxygen from earth to mars to sustain life for longer than it takes to actually transport it. Even to travel to mars (forget living there just yet) it would be necessary to make a self-sustaining environment. They were discussing this on Discovery Channel... you would need to make a self-sustaining, closed environment. Water, oxygen, and even human waste would need to be recycled to make it possible.

So, I believe the short answer to your question is "no". You couldn't transport enough, quickly enough, to make it actually work.

Answer 10

Besides the monitary cost, if we were to take consumables such as that from earth to Mars, they won't be replenished. We could eventually turn earth into Mars by taking too many resources.