5 Fairly Good Reasons A Venus Cloud City Could Happen
Space X and Tesla founder Elon Musk has a vision for colonising Mars, based on a big rocket, nuclear explosions and an infrastructure to transport millions of people there. This was seen as highly ambitious but technically challenging in several ways. Planetary protection rules and the difficulties of terraforming (making the planet hospitable by, for example, warming it up) and dealing with the harsh radiation were quoted as severe obstacles.
Musk’s know-how cannot be dismissed but there are significant challenges standing between him and his dream of colonising Mars.
Due to its similarities to Earth and its warm, watery past, there are those who think that Mars could be turned into a "second Earth".
We have created a speculated timeline of human exploration and colonization of Mars. Predictions are based on a reasonably optimistic evaluation of technological and social progress of humanity.
Mars exploration secures humanity's future, fosters collaboration, and pushes boundaries of human potential.
If setting up home on another planet sounds a daunting prospect, then our space correspondent Richard Hollingham is here to help.
How humans will colonize and live on Mars in the 22nd century. You are about to learn how humanity will conquer the red planet and make it
Picture of the Day 22/8/16 - Mars greenhouse by Italian illustrator Tazio Bettin for "Mars Colony: 39 Dark" role-playing board game.
When meteorites land on Earth, microbes soon begin colonising them. If Mars once had life, microbes might have colonised meteorites there too
Don't hold your breath.
The time has come to stake your claim on Mars and build the first functioning human colony on the Red Planet!
5 Fairly Good Reasons A Venus Cloud City Could Happen
Raising crops on Mars is far easier in science fiction than it will be in real life: The Red Planet is an inhospitable world. Among other challenges, subzero
