Mars have been fascinating us from the beginning, it's red color makes it one of the beautiful object in the night sky!
Mans habit from beginning of his evolution to explore new things and new places has drawn this interest in Mars mission. So people from around the globe are interested to study Mars in detail and looking forward to land their foot on Mars and eventually colonize it. For the same the race has begun and the applications have been invited even by the private organizations to the people around the Earth and this can only happen when all the interested nations join hands together.
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Mans habit from beginning of his evolution to explore new things and new places has drawn this interest in Mars mission. So people from around the globe are interested to study Mars in detail and looking forward to land their foot on Mars and eventually colonize it. For the same the race has begun and the applications have been invited even by the private organizations to the people around the Earth and this can only happen when all the interested nations join hands together.
Why Mars?
Being the last rocky planet in the inner solar system makes it the next eligible candidate after our mother Earth for the life to form on it, after the moon the next destination for humans is Mars!! So every one are behind Mars now, all the space faring countries are interested to study Mars in detail, so many missions have been planned both unmanned and manned missions. There was a time when we thought even going to moon is impossible but the cold war changed the thoughts of humans, making astronauts from USA land on moon. It seems like after landing on moon spending so much money for the missions and sending unmanned probes humans are not satisfied with the results, so now the next candidate is Mars!How Life? And the challenges faced..
Like other space missions not all who apply for the mission can go to Mars mission, it has its own challenges.
Missions around Earth
From the first mission to space started by Russians sending Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin to space in 1961 it has been very challenging with every new human mission. New methods being adapted new things being innovated for the safety of astronauts, cosmonauts or taikonauts. But in the beginning all the missions were being conducted with military personals from Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin to Neil Alden Armstrong. Now it's the matter of leaving Earth's gravity and entering a entirely different place, the Mars.
Mars mission
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Things will be entirely different as this mission is not like moon missions! It has its own challenges offering. It could be a one way trip! Because a one way journey will take around 7 to 8 months when Mars is in perigee (point nearest to a planet). One should be ready to leave all his relationships back here and go. So humans first need to be trained to adapt the space environment, as traveling in the space for such long time can cause effects, both mentally and physically, even Mars environment should be adapted even though a artificial environment like Earth will be created! Experiments like Mars 500 have shown the problems humans can face during Mars mission.
Gravity
The gravity place a very important role, it's very less 3.711 m/s² compared to Earths 9.78 m/s² so it will effect humans muscular tissues and bones! Even 6 months journey cause problems in Zero gravity!
Atmosphere
Like here on Earth Mars dose not have an atmosphere, it has got a very thin atmosphere, so every time if they need to leave the living units they need to wear the space suit or Mars suit whatever it is called! Even the magnetic field is not substantial like Earths, it will invite all sorts of trouble! Next comes how to survive the harsh environment of Mars, it is an unforgiving environment where a small mistake or accident can result in large failure, injury and death. The solar storms, the UV all are enough to cause severe damage to the crew.
Surviving on Mars
The most important part of the mission is to survive on Mars and leading life if it has to be colonized. There is no abundant amount of Oxygen and Water on Mars the main source of Life like here on Earth. It should be carried along with the crew members like how the supply goes to International Space Station (ISS) orbiting Earth and it will be a different way to maintain it and survive on the limited amount of the Life saving ingredients available on board until the next cargo reach them!
Food
A artificial atmosphere should be created so food can be grown inside the living units (remember a Hollywood Sci-Fic Mission to Mars) it is not easy to grow plants on Mars like here which can give Oxygen and Food depending upon type of plants grown and if suddenly, you got a wish of having a Pizza there is no outlet which can take your order and deliver it in 30 minutes!! Water
Waste management
Here on Earth itself waste management is a very difficult task there it will be even more difficult it cannot just be disposed as easily as here, even that should be planned well to recycle it for different purpose it might reduce the cost of mission a little bit!
Dream come true
If all this is done in a systematic manner spending infinite amount of money joining hands with different nations sharing Science and Technology this dream of Humans to colonize the Mars can become true in the near future!!
