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Wouldn't you be able to live on Mars because it has oxygen in the air?

2007-01-19 11:01:32 · 13 answers · asked by Pi 1 in Science & Mathematics Astronomy & Space

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no,there is oxygen but it isn't enough to support human life.Also the martion atmoshere cotains gases that are leathal to humans.

2007-01-19 11:13:57 · answer #1 · answered by spaceman20 2 · 0 1

Mars has very very strong winds, dust storms that sometimes become global dust storms, and dust devils, as mentioned above.

We could never live there without some major changes to the atmosphere. For starters, it's a very thin atmosphere - the atmospheric pressure at the surface is less than 1% Earth's surface atmospheric pressure. The atmosphere is roughly 95% carbon dioxide, with very little oxygen (compare that to Earth's atmosphere with roughly 20% oxygen). Since there's virtually no oxygen on Mars, it has no ozone layer to protect the surface from the Sun's deadly UV rays. And while some summertime temperatures reach above 0 F, the global average temperature is -58 F.

2007-01-19 19:43:20 · answer #2 · answered by kris 6 · 3 0

Mars might have no breathable atmosphere but as long as there is any gas at all (like carbon dioxide) you can have wind. Mars has extreme winds which stir up massive dust storms that can obscure much of the planet and also shape (erode) its surface.

2007-01-19 19:11:55 · answer #3 · answered by cosmick 4 · 1 0

Mars has winds that almost exceeed the speed of sound during serious storms. But since the atmosphereic pressure is a little less than 1% of the earth, they are no more violent than earthly ones.

2007-01-19 19:05:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2 1

Mars has alot of winds and traces of oxygen. We cannot live there as it is too windy, lots of dust and only has 0.15% ogf oxygen.

2007-01-19 20:12:41 · answer #5 · answered by Misumi Nagisa fan xD 2 · 0 0

mars has very very very little oxeygen, it would be like living on a very high mountain on earth, the winds are also very very strong due to lack of any resistance they get stronger. and you couldnt really live on mars, oxygen is only one of the things we need to survive.

2007-01-20 00:19:29 · answer #6 · answered by pbmaze 3 · 1 0

Yup

The wind is so strong that it helped clean dust off the solar panels of the mars rover opportunity (or was it spirit?) thus improving their power output.

2007-01-19 19:09:38 · answer #7 · answered by boter_99 3 · 0 0

all the bad gas gets blown out of mars's a$$

2007-01-19 20:12:01 · answer #8 · answered by fuufingf 5 · 0 0

It has wind, but don't have enough oxygen there.

2007-01-20 04:40:22 · answer #9 · answered by Eve W 3 · 0 0

Hi. Not only wind but dust devils! : http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/20050819a.html

2007-01-19 19:06:13 · answer #10 · answered by Cirric 7 · 1 1

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