Should There Be Allowed To Colonize Mars?

The Planet of Mars isbeing 142 million miles away from the sun and only forty-nine million miles away from earth. The average temperature for Earth is fifty-seven degrees fahrenheit. The average temperature for Mars is negative eighty-one degrees fahrenheit. You would think there would be no way of having life on Mars (University Today). The cool thing is scientists think Mars would be the first planet to colonize and be able to live on. Almost everyone thinks that earth has full twenty-four hour days. Truth be told that Earth only has twenty-three hours and fifty-six minutes days. Mars actually has longer days lasting as long as twenty-four hours and thirty-six minutes. There are a lot of planets that have more than one moon and Mars can be included in this because it has two moons. The name of both of these moons is Phobos and Deimos and were found in 1877. Both of these moons are named after the sons of Ares which is the Greek God of war (University Today).
Mars got it’s name from the Romans which stands for God of War. Mars is also known as the “Red Giant,” because of the way it looks. You may wonder how Mars got its nickname “Red Giant.” This has to do
with the amount of iron oxide prevalent on its surface causing the planet to have a reddish look. If you were to get a closer look atto Mars you would see that it is more like a butterscotch color. When you look up in the sky because it is so far away it looks reddish. The surface of Mars is covered with dust that is as fine as baby powder and a lot of rocks that are made of iron. Below the dusty surface is Martian crust which is mostly made up of volcanic basalt rock (Nasa.gov). Volcanic basalt rock is a dark-colored crystallized rock composed mainly of plagioclase and pyroxene minerals. This is commonly formed when lava hardens under the surface (geology.com).
Scientist and Astronomers think if we were to be able to colonize a planet it would be Mars.
This sounds like it could be true because there isn’t much of a difference between Mars and Earth. The big problems with colonizing Mars is oxygen and liquid water. Having liquid water on Mars is possible though because features on the surface suggest that water once flowed. Even though there is no sign of liquid water on Mars astronomers have found water is frozen in the soil, and in sheets of ice in the polar ice caps (Sharp). A way to get oxygen on Mars would be to grow plants. Mars is ninety-five percent carbon dioxide (Sharp) which plants need to survive and grow. In return, plants would give off oxygen for us to breath. Even if we did this the gravity on Mars would not be able to keep oxygen in its
atmosphere.
A question you may ask is does Mars have seasons? The answer would be yes Mars does have season. Actually it has the same seasons as us plus two others because it’s years last longer than on Earth. Spring on Mars last up to seven months, summer last six months, Fall at 5.3 months, and winter lasting just over four months. Like Earth, Mars is warmer in the southern parts, by about thirty degrees celsius. These great changes in the temperature and the changes in warmth between hemispheres can cause huge dust storms. This change in the temperature and the warmth doesn't always cause huge storms. They can produce small ones here and there but they can also get as big where it covers the whole planet. These storms mostly happen when the planet is at its closest point to the Sun, also known as the aphelion. During a global dust storm it is impossible to even see the surface of Mars. (Coffey)
There is still a lot of information that scientist and Astronomers don’t know about Mars and the other planets. The better the technology gets the more information they will find out with Mars and these other planets. Also the more advanced we get with our technology Mars may be a planet humans would be able to live on. I would say Mars is our best choice for being the first planet to live on because it's not that much different than earth.