Science Fiction has been exploring the concept of space travel to other planets for years, and now it’s finally becoming reality, but now there’s a question to be asked, should we colonize Mars? As time goes by, there is surely a discussion and journey ahead. Mars is the planet most like Earth, its similar surface and existence of water makes it the topic of human colonization. Elon musk’s SpaceX, as well as
Mars One, began working on getting to Mars since 2011 and they are working to get a human colony on
Mars by 2035. We should most definitely colonize Mars because moving people to mars would help the state of Earth, Mars yields many resources and exploring Mars could shed light on many concepts.
Colonizing Mars would help the state of the
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This idea is a very important one, while colonizing Mars would be great for getting resources and info; it’s clear that the Earth is changing, for the better or worse, and colonizing Mars could help this.
Colonizing Mars would bring us many plentiful resources. These would include; Iron, aluminum, nickel, magnesium, titanium, chromium, zinc, lithium, gold, and much more. Mars would help us get more resources, and getting more resources is always better. Mars might even have new undiscovered elements and minerals.
Exploring Mars could help explain many things we have yet to discover, mainly the question about life outside of Earth. Many of these unanswered questions could be answered if we colonized Mars and explored it. “On September 6, 2017 NASA’s Curiosity Rover found the element Boron, this could mean there was once life on Mars.” This Idea is extremely important; it shows that we need someone on
Mars to get the answers and information we are looking for, as rovers can’t do everything we need them to. Some people might think that we shouldn’t colonize Mars because the trip there could be dangerous and it could be a permanent stay there. In addition, transporting resources to and from