27. Colonizing Mars will present significant challenges.
Mars is remarkably different from the Earth’s dreams of traveling there and creating human settlements that look more like sandcastles in the air or castles out in space. We can’t breathe the air. The temperature is too cold for human habitation. There are no plants to stabilize the atmosphere. After the Earth, Mars is the most habitable planet in our solar system due to several reasons: Its soil contains water to extract. It isn’t too cold or too hot.
Scientists are looking at ways to send humans to Mars for short-term exploration projects. However, before we can even consider the possibility of building a Martian colony of humans, we will have to do some planet-sized problem-solving. Like figuring out how to build a breathable atmosphere or make humans walk on the low-gravity Martian surface without just floating off into space.