Why Doesn T Humans Live On Mars Possible?
For this essay, I researched different sources to find out whether living on Mars was possible or not. To do this I checked facts about Mars and research about how certain parts of Mars can affect humans’ abilities to survive on the red planet. I have also included some recent discoveries of what NASA has found that may give advantages to the humans. This essay is going to go through several points with detailed research about why or why can’t humans live on Mars.
Introduction
Despite Mars having a dry and cold climate, both Earth and Mars still have a lot of similarity, including the size, structure and the inclination. The population of Earth will increase and soon there would be not enough space on this planet and because Mars, is next …show more content…
to Earth the scientists have been researching to find evidence for life on Mars. Scientists are focused on Mars not only because of the similarities but also at one period billion years ago the atmosphere over Mars can hold water, which is important to human survival. The purpose of this essay is to determine whether living on Mars is possible or not including recent discoveries Mars.
Main Body -
NASA has captured the most potent evidence that there have been water flowing on Mars. Using a device, researchers have discovered that there are hydrated minerals on slopes with a darker streaks. During warm seasons, when the temperature is above minus 23 Celsius, the streaks have darken and seem to flow down while during cold seasons the dark streaks seemed to fade. Because of this, the survival of human sounds promising. Although the survival of humankind depends on how salty the water over there is. According to Ojha (2015) of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta said “If the water is entirely saturated with perchlorates [hydrated salts], then life as we know it on Earth wouldn’t be able to survive in that sort of concentrated water, but if the water only has a tiny percentage of perchlorates in it, then I think we should be fine." The Perchlorate is bad for the human health because it damage the thyroid, with can affect the ability to produce hormones that are required for the human growth and development. But as Ojha said if there is only a few percentage of salt, then it acts as a big advantage. This is because salt absorbs the water from the air and lower the freezing point of water.
Human’s duration for harsh temperature is not very good since it’s only 37.1 Celsius on Earth while Mars is much colder.
They can’t adapt into the climate of Mars instantly as the country that is colder than Mars is Antarctica with -45 degree celsius. The temperature over Mars changes but the average is about minus 55 celsius and without keeping the body core (torso) warm, below 28, the human's heart heart rate, respiratory rate and blood pressure fall. Multiple organs will start to fail and death is guaranteed. Mars is the 4th planet that is close to the Sun after Earth, which let Mars have a different amount of sunlight compared to those that are near to the Sun. The amount of sunlight gotten on Mars is 40% less than the sunlight on Earth so it would be more hard to get vitamin D. Lacking in vitamin D can cause the bones of an adult to be fragile whilst if it were a child, then their bones will be soft and easy to break. Not only this but studies show that those who lack vitamin D have more chance to get diseases such as breast cancer, heart disease, depression, weight gain and …show more content…
others.
Terraforming Mars is a process that many scientists want to change the environment to achieve that humans could survive over there. Mars need a powerful greenhouse gas that speeds up the global warming over at Mars and doesn’t destroy the ozone layer because it traps the heat in. If they were to build hundreds of factories on Mars, working for a hundred years then the temperature of Mars will go up by 6 to 8 degrees. Roughly, it would take about 8 or 9 centuries but that is only with carbon dioxide. Creating artificial gases using material on Mars could make the process to warm up a lot faster than carbon dioxide. According to Marinova, an ungraduated student along with Mckay, a member of NASA they create a artificial gas called perfluorocarbons which last for a long time and don’t give negative effects on living organism. Releasing this on Mars can speed up the Martian temperature faster and soon the planet can change so that it is like another Earth.
Earth and Mars have different type of gases, on Earth there is about 21 percent of oxygen while Mars have about 0.13 percent of oxygen.
Other than oxygen, Mars have about 95.32 percent, 2.6 percent, 1.6 percent argon, 0.08 percent carbon monoxide and less 0.17 percent of others. Over at Mars as it is 95.32 percent of carbon dioxide, humans can't breathe and carrying oxygen over there will waste a lot of fuel and time as it takes around 9 months to get there and bringing oxygen tanks won’t be enough to last a long time. However having carbon dioxide on Mars is a big problem as the human body can’t stand it. Since carbon dioxide is poisonous to the body if there is low level exposure it would cause muscle twitching, high blood pressure, and reduced brain activity with could be dangerous on an unknown planet like Mars. Higher levels reduce the ability of the body to regulate the heartbeat, cause convulsions, and will eventually kill a person so living on Mars is impossible without any way of getting
oxygen.
In conclusion, I think that travelling to Mars is possible but the technology isn’t enough to let humans live over there right now. In the future, there will be more discoveries that might let scientist know that survival over Mars is more realistic but right now, heating Mars up can melt the ice into water but it will have to take a long time for the environment of Mars changed into an environment that humans can survive. Although in the future where trees can be planted, Mars is still far away and as said in the 3 paragraph, it will take a long time for Mars to get warmer so that trees can deal with the temperature so I think humans can live on Mars but it would have to take several centuries with the preparations done.
Introduction
Despite Mars having a dry and cold climate, both Earth and Mars still have a lot of similarity, including the size, structure and the inclination. The population of Earth will increase and soon there would be not enough space on this planet and because Mars, is next …show more content…
to Earth the scientists have been researching to find evidence for life on Mars. Scientists are focused on Mars not only because of the similarities but also at one period billion years ago the atmosphere over Mars can hold water, which is important to human survival. The purpose of this essay is to determine whether living on Mars is possible or not including recent discoveries Mars.
Main Body -
NASA has captured the most potent evidence that there have been water flowing on Mars. Using a device, researchers have discovered that there are hydrated minerals on slopes with a darker streaks. During warm seasons, when the temperature is above minus 23 Celsius, the streaks have darken and seem to flow down while during cold seasons the dark streaks seemed to fade. Because of this, the survival of human sounds promising. Although the survival of humankind depends on how salty the water over there is. According to Ojha (2015) of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta said “If the water is entirely saturated with perchlorates [hydrated salts], then life as we know it on Earth wouldn’t be able to survive in that sort of concentrated water, but if the water only has a tiny percentage of perchlorates in it, then I think we should be fine." The Perchlorate is bad for the human health because it damage the thyroid, with can affect the ability to produce hormones that are required for the human growth and development. But as Ojha said if there is only a few percentage of salt, then it acts as a big advantage. This is because salt absorbs the water from the air and lower the freezing point of water.
Human’s duration for harsh temperature is not very good since it’s only 37.1 Celsius on Earth while Mars is much colder.
They can’t adapt into the climate of Mars instantly as the country that is colder than Mars is Antarctica with -45 degree celsius. The temperature over Mars changes but the average is about minus 55 celsius and without keeping the body core (torso) warm, below 28, the human's heart heart rate, respiratory rate and blood pressure fall. Multiple organs will start to fail and death is guaranteed. Mars is the 4th planet that is close to the Sun after Earth, which let Mars have a different amount of sunlight compared to those that are near to the Sun. The amount of sunlight gotten on Mars is 40% less than the sunlight on Earth so it would be more hard to get vitamin D. Lacking in vitamin D can cause the bones of an adult to be fragile whilst if it were a child, then their bones will be soft and easy to break. Not only this but studies show that those who lack vitamin D have more chance to get diseases such as breast cancer, heart disease, depression, weight gain and …show more content…
others.
Terraforming Mars is a process that many scientists want to change the environment to achieve that humans could survive over there. Mars need a powerful greenhouse gas that speeds up the global warming over at Mars and doesn’t destroy the ozone layer because it traps the heat in. If they were to build hundreds of factories on Mars, working for a hundred years then the temperature of Mars will go up by 6 to 8 degrees. Roughly, it would take about 8 or 9 centuries but that is only with carbon dioxide. Creating artificial gases using material on Mars could make the process to warm up a lot faster than carbon dioxide. According to Marinova, an ungraduated student along with Mckay, a member of NASA they create a artificial gas called perfluorocarbons which last for a long time and don’t give negative effects on living organism. Releasing this on Mars can speed up the Martian temperature faster and soon the planet can change so that it is like another Earth.
Earth and Mars have different type of gases, on Earth there is about 21 percent of oxygen while Mars have about 0.13 percent of oxygen.
Other than oxygen, Mars have about 95.32 percent, 2.6 percent, 1.6 percent argon, 0.08 percent carbon monoxide and less 0.17 percent of others. Over at Mars as it is 95.32 percent of carbon dioxide, humans can't breathe and carrying oxygen over there will waste a lot of fuel and time as it takes around 9 months to get there and bringing oxygen tanks won’t be enough to last a long time. However having carbon dioxide on Mars is a big problem as the human body can’t stand it. Since carbon dioxide is poisonous to the body if there is low level exposure it would cause muscle twitching, high blood pressure, and reduced brain activity with could be dangerous on an unknown planet like Mars. Higher levels reduce the ability of the body to regulate the heartbeat, cause convulsions, and will eventually kill a person so living on Mars is impossible without any way of getting
oxygen.
In conclusion, I think that travelling to Mars is possible but the technology isn’t enough to let humans live over there right now. In the future, there will be more discoveries that might let scientist know that survival over Mars is more realistic but right now, heating Mars up can melt the ice into water but it will have to take a long time for the environment of Mars changed into an environment that humans can survive. Although in the future where trees can be planted, Mars is still far away and as said in the 3 paragraph, it will take a long time for Mars to get warmer so that trees can deal with the temperature so I think humans can live on Mars but it would have to take several centuries with the preparations done.