• Question: Could we colonize mars and somehow create an atmosphere that could host the human race after earth as been destroyed.

    Asked by milkshakemaker to Ben, Clare, Ezzy, Mario, Sam on 14 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Elizabeth Pearson

      Elizabeth Pearson answered on 13 Mar 2012:

      Creating an atmosphere probably isn’t possible. It’s smaller than earth so can’t hold on to the air as well and the same would happen if we tried to impose an atmosphere. If we were going to colonize mars it would have to be self contained buildings or something.

      and if we could live there after the world was destroyed rather depends on how the world got destroyed in the first place.

    • Photo: Mario Campanelli

      Mario Campanelli answered on 14 Mar 2012:

      An atmosphere like the one we have would disappear immediately from Mars due to its gravity, and it would be too cold anyway.
      We have a beautiful planet, let’s stop destroying it instead of keeping the illusion that there is somewhere else to go!

    • Photo: Clare Burrage

      Clare Burrage answered on 18 Mar 2012:

      Mars has a rocky surface so it would be possible to build building there which we could use. But as far as we know there is no water on Mars, and all forms of life that we know need water to survive, so it’s very hard to see how we would be able to live long term on Mars. It would be pretty much impossible to carry all the water we need to Mars from the Earth.

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