Can we live on Mars?
Why live on Earth when you can live on Mars? Well, strictly speaking, you can’t, however scientists and researches are trying to find a way to make this possible, in fact, NASA has revealed its plans to try to get humans living on Mars in the next few decades.
Unlike the Moon, humans have never physically set foot on Mars, we’ve only ever 
used robots like the Curiosity rover. By exploring Mars with robots for the last 40 years, NASA has found out a lot about this planet, including the recent discovery that there is flowing icy water under the crust. They hope that this huge mission will help us to learn even more about not just Mars, but Earth as well.
Since 2010 NASA has been testing out the effects of what living in space can do to the human body, to prepare the
m for the journey to Mars, and also for living there. At the moment it takes around eight months to travel to Mars, but scientists arelooking into ways to reduce this time. By 2030 NASA are hoping to send people of to Mars, not just to visit, but also to live there for a long period of time. They will be looking into ways to make fuel, water, oxygen and building materials on the Red planet. NASA will also be looking into improving their communications systems with Earth, to allow for quicker exchanges of research and data.
My opinion
I am not really sure how I feel about this, on the one hand I understand that NASA is investing in this because they want to create a backup location f
or humanity, in the event that life on Earth becomes untenable due to things like Climate Change and by exploring this planet we can maybe find something that has never been discovered before, but on the other hand I don’t think we have the right to explore other planets and start thinking of ways to live there. Instead of solving the problems that our planet is facing now we are trying to come up with alternatives and ignoring the state of Earth. I find that there are some interesting facts about Mars, however I don’t really agree with the idea of living there because this planet will have the same sad ending as earth will have sooner or later; Humans will be living on Mars like they are living on Earth, and treat it the same way. Nothing would change…
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