WHY MARS

After the Earth, Mars is the most habitable planet in our solar system.

With the mission to Mars, there will be massive developments in all kinds of areas, including an opportunity for human being to create a new society with equality.

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All About Mars

Reasons that make Mars the second most habitable planet in Solar system:

    Roadmap to Mars

    NASA's Journey to Mars

    NASA is developing the capabilities needed to send humans to an asteroid by 2025 and Mars in the 2030s – goals outlined in the bipartisan NASA Authorization Act of 2010 and in the U.S. National Space Policy, also issued in 2010.

    While robotic explorers have studied Mars for more than 40 years, NASA's path for the human exploration of Mars begins in low-Earth orbit aboard the International Space Station. Astronauts on the orbiting laboratory are helping us prove many of the technologies and communications systems needed for human missions to deep space, including Mars. The space station also advances our understanding of how the body changes in space and how to protect astronaut health.

    NASA currently has three spacecraft in orbit, and it has one rover and one lander on the surface. NASA launched the next-generation Perseverance rover to Mars on July 30, 2020.

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    Technologies NASA is Advancing to Send Humans to Mars

    1. Powerful propulsion systems to get us there (and home!) quicker: NASA is advancing multiple options, including nuclear electric and nuclear thermal propulsion. The fundamentals of nuclear propulsion will reduce the crew's time away from Earth.
    2. Inflatable heat shield to land astronauts on other planets: NASA is working on an inflatable heat shield that allows the large surface area to take up less space in a rocket than a rigid one. The technology could land spacecraft on any planet with an atmosphere.
    3. High-tech Martian spacesuits.
    4. Martian home and lab on wheels.
    5. Uninterrupted power: Mars has a day and night cycle like Earth and periodic dust storms that can last for months, making nuclear fission power a more reliable option than solar power. NASA already tested the technology on Earth and demonstrated it is safe, efficient, and plentiful enough to enable long-duration surface missions. NASA plans to demonstrate and use the fission power system on the Moon first, then Mars.
    6. Laser communications to send more information home: A laser communications system at Mars could send large amounts of real-time information and data, including high-definition images and video feeds. Sending a map of Mars to Earth might take nine years with current radio systems, but as little as nine weeks with laser communications. The technology would also allow us to communicate with astronauts, to see and hear more of their adventures on the Red Planet.

    Motivation

    Future population growth, demand for resources, and an alternate solution to the Doomsday argument may require human colonization of bodies other than Earth, such as Mars, the Moon, and other objects. Space colonization would facilitate harvesting the Solar System's energy and material resources.

    In many aspects, Mars is the most Earth-like of all the other planets in the Solar System. It is thought that Mars had a more Earth-like environment early in its history, with a thicker atmosphere and abundant water that was lost over the course of hundreds of millions of years. Given the foundations of similarity and proximity, Mars would make one of the most plausible terraforming targets in the Solar System.