2007-11-21 03:01:18 · 8 answers · asked by Haley B 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
It is close compared to the other planets. It has polar ice caps meaning that there is some water. It has real surface, not a gas planet, so we can land on it. Temperatures are not AS extreme as they are on other planets too.
2007-11-21 03:08:00 · answer #1 · answered by B. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The MAIN main attraction is that we used to think it was habitable. With more air that it really has, and water on the surface, and maybe plants and animals. 100 years ago many people though there was a civilization of intelligent aliens there. I think the main attraction is kind of a nostalgic memory of those now disproven theories.
But still, of all the other planets in this solar system, it is the most Earth like. It is cold, but not SO cold. It does have some air and water, although the air is poisonous carbon dioxide and is way too thin to breathe even if it were oxygen, and the water is all frozen and mostly underground.
2007-11-21 11:19:15 · answer #2 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The fact that it once may have been livable. Finding proof of alien life on Mars, even ancient fossilized bacteria, would mean we have to rethink our place in the universe. If life can emerge twice in the same solar system than the universe should be teeming with life. There is even a remote chance that there is life still on Mars some where deep underground. Once it arises life is incredibly hard to extinguish.
2007-11-21 13:11:23 · answer #3 · answered by DrAnders_pHd 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it occupies a huge place in various legends.
it's not too far. It's a good deal smaller than Earth but large enough to feel like a real planet.
you can explore it wearing a normal spacesuit - which wouldn't work at all on Venus for example
it has abundant minerals, and seems to have frozen water. So you could set up a base for astronauts and make it at least partly self-sufficient by using martian resources. You could also imagine to send people there w just enough fuel to get there - and also send, possibly by probe, the equipment to make the fuel for the return trip.
2007-11-21 11:29:56 · answer #4 · answered by AntoineBachmann 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
gravity, just like everywhere else.....
actually, it's main attraction is that, of all the bodies in our solar system, Mars most closely matches the Earth in terms of temperature, gravity, and possibly raw materials (primarily water), and is the most likely place (at least as far as we know) to find life other than the Earth. The hope is that eventually, humans can become "Martians."
2007-11-21 11:19:57 · answer #5 · answered by David Bowman 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's the closest world to Earth that we're capable of exploring. Eventually, we'll have missions to the outer planets, but with Jupiter's intense radiation, Saturns rings (dangerous for spacecraft), and the sheer distance of Neptune & Uranus, this makes Mars the best, nearest world for the next step in Man's exploration.
2007-11-21 11:09:26 · answer #6 · answered by quantumclaustrophobe 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The fact that it has no oxygen? Mars is not a theme park.
2007-11-21 11:05:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
olympus mons, the largets volcano in the solar system, and they have a canyon that dwarfs the grand canyon, it is a geologists wet dream
2007-11-21 11:32:51 · answer #8 · answered by lee s 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋