Mars Our Future On The Red Planet Essay

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I agree with “Mars, Our Future on the red Planet” by Leonard David that sooner or later, a human being will leave the first footprint on Mars. This first footprint may merely be for the purpose of science, or it may be the establishment of a settlement for colonists. Elon Musk, a billionaire entrepreneur and founder of SpaceX has already made detailed plans for putting humans on Mars around 2025. He plans to build a gigantic shuttle capable of carrying hundreds of people at a time, stick it on top of a booster that is even more powerful than the Saturn rockets and launch it. The core stage would decouple and land vertically back at launch pad 39A in Cape Canaveral, Florida and the shuttle would unfurl its solar panels and glide millions of miles across the solar system. After nine months, the shuttle would hit the top of the Martian atmosphere at around Mach 23, in other words, 23 times the speed of sound, and land vertically with its three center raptor …show more content…

Either they could live in underground caverns carved out by lava hundreds of millions of years in the past, or they could terraform Mars, or in other words, alter the environment so we humans can safely roam about without needing a pressurized space suit for oxygen or the fear of being bombarded by harsh ultraviolet radiation. To do this, they would first need to crash an asteroid into Mars, preferably the North or South pole, thus warming Mars up a bit and thickening the atmosphere. Then they would need to transport massive amounts of plants and water to Mars, a process that would take several hundreds of thousands of years. But by doing this, you would allow billions of people to settle on the Red Planet, creating more room back on Earth and fixing the problem of overpopulation for probably several centuries. Mars could also be a new tourist destination for people who always wanted to go there for

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