Mars is full of mysteries, that's what they keep sending satellites and rovers to explore. The red planet contains water frozen as ice. The largest known volcano in the solar system may have been home to microbial life in the past, but to truly explore a neighboring planet. We need to send humans there and the reality is that won't happen for a really really long time.
How long you might be wondering? Well, let's find out the first obstacle to overcome before colonizing mars, is to get there launching rich people in his face has become pretty popular recently, and it seems that this type of thing will become more and more common.
However, launching a few people into earth's orbit and bring it back is a much easier task cause then sending a colonization mission to mars. As of right now we do not have the technology to to successfully send a human crew to mars, let alone colonize the planet on average earth and mars are separated by around one hundred forty million miles. Just to put that in perspective, jeff bass us went under seventy miles from earth surface into orbit.
The international space station is two hundred forty five miles above our heads and the moon is approximately two hundred thirty eight thousand eight hundred fifty five miles from our planet so to send humans.
Millions of miles to mars is just not something we are capable of yet to be fair. The mission to mars would be plans to go inside with earth and mars being as close as possible for one another in their orbits, which would only puts him about thirty four million miles apart, but that's still a lot further than any human has ever gone before the other problem.
With aiming for this specific window, oh, is that it only happens once every twenty six months, then, if you've ever waited to watch a rocket launched, you know that there can often be delays due to unfavorable weather conditions on earth. If the launch window for the mars mission is missed, then we'd have to wait another twenty six months to try again. So how close are we to even reaching lift off tomorrow? The answer is not a good one. Neither nasa or russia or or any other private space companies have a rocket capable of launching humans to mars.
Many organizations are working on it, but this technology just doesn't exist yet we can launch robots to the red planet, but humans unfortunately require much more space, resources and breathable air than robots do, and since technology to get there is still hypothetical for being built. It's going to take time once we have the require tech to launch from our planet to our neighbor, along with the actual flight, take the rover missions to mars have taken between one hundred and twenty eight days to three hundred thirty three days.
The main difference here is that, since the robotic missions to mars are lighter than a human mission would be that can travel faster using less fuel before we can even consider colonizing mars, we need to be able to send a crew there and get them back. The best way to assess whether mars is a viable option for colonization is to have actual boots on the ground.
The best estimates for a round trip mission to mars puts the entire journey at around three years. Long from liftoff to landing to returning home, it's one thing to do a flyby of mars, which we don't have the technology to do with humans on board. It's another thing to land, a crew on them planted and to bring them home.
There is currently no spacecraft that can hold a crew of astronauts for longer than two years without being resupply, and it should come as no surprise that resupply stations don't currently exist in the space between earth and mars. Really what it comes down to is.
We need to develop the rockets and technology to carry a crew through the vast distances of space between earth and so before. Any form of colonization can begin astronauts and future colonists will need to do a very long journey through space, and one of the main problems here is the isolation, be cruel face. Imagine spending years alone in a tight space with some of your coworkers. That thought is probably pretty terrifying and rightfully so at some point, people will get on each other's nerves and conscious actually will arise.
Nasa and other space agencies are already conducting experiments around long term isolation of cruise, but a solution to this problem is still a long way away, since nothing can stimulate the isolation of space or being on a different planet.
This brings us to another unique problem. Although you might be excited at the prospect of colonizing mars, you probably won't be a viable candidate, the astronaut's being tre and right now will not be the astronauts aboard the rocket that sense, the first colonists to the red planet. This poses a problem, as we don't know what the talent pool will be like in the decades to come.
We also need to figure out who will get along and be able to work together in the confines of a capsule rocketing through space toward mars. The isolation and loneliness that will accompany the long mission to mars needs to be better understood before we send our first astronauts on the mission, and the data collected from that first crew will then be vital to understanding how to get us to the red planet and keep them mentally stable right now, scientists are trying to figure out how to reduce the side effects of isolation, such as decline in mood and cognition, increased irritability and heightened stress levels.
All of these things will put further strain on the call honest and we don't have a cure, all method to reduce these effects. Quite yet, the next problem that needs to be sold in order to send a mission to mars occur as both in space and on the red planet. Humans are fragile beings. The physical effects of prolonged radiation to the body is something we know it will be a problem, but we haven't figured out a long term solution for it.
Yet it's pointless to send a crew to mars if they die die from radiation poisoning before they get there on our planet, we're protected from radiation by earth's magnetic field. This is a good thing, because space is full of this. Dangerous type of energy radiation can cause mutations in dna, which can lead to cancer nacho, resulting in loss of bodily fluids and visual impairment. None of these things are good for astronaut's trying to survive.
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