Mars, 2001, with the southern polar ice cap visible on the bottom. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
It is proposed that by the year 2023 four humans will set foot on the planet Mars. Two years after that four more will join them and every further two years another four will join them until a sizeable settlement is established. Each journey will provide more accommodation modules, materials and perhaps food supplies, although the colony is intended to eventually become self-sufficient. The first settlers will find it hard but as more join them it should become easier. For the first few years all journeys will be one-way only but perhaps in later years it will be possible to journey both ways. Recruits need to know how much they will be giving up here on Earth to make the life-changing journey and knowing they cannot return. That is a very big decision for anyone to make. Would you make that decision? What about family, friends and social activity? Living with only three other people for two years would mean having to get along with them extremely well. No more grass, trees, flowers, animals, rivers and seas, no clouds in the sky, no sound except that of a 400 mph wind when it blows, whipping up the Martian sand and blowing it to the other side of the planet! There are many things to consider before making a journey to Mars. Would you go to Mars knowing that you most probably will never return? I might go for a visit if it were possible but stay there? I don’t think so.
For more information on the Mars Mission click on the link ‘Colonising Mars’ over on the right or on the links below…
Shirley Anne
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