Can Humans Survive on Mars?
My answer is that, yes, one day technology will allow us to terraform regions of Mars to make them more Earth-like and suitable for human habitation. Technology will also make it possible for us to grow food on Mars, make oxygen, and move around outside. What would we have to change? Well, first of all, we’d have to figure out some way of making the atmosphere suitable for sustaining life. It’s unlikely that we could globally change its composition, but we might be able to change certain areas by enclosing living space in a rounded or tent-like dome. Plants would be able to use Mars’ natural CO2 atmosphere to produde oxygen and we would then be able to breathe. Mars’ lower gravitational field is a problem when we consider moving around on the surface. On Earth, gravity in equals pressure out and so our fluids (blood, water) stay in our bodies. On Mars, the lower gravitational field would mean that our fluids would burst out of our skin unless we did something to equalize the opposing p
