The dream of colonizing Mars has captivated humanity for decades, yet recent scientific findings suggest that this aspiration may be fraught with insurmountable challenges. While NASA has ambitions to send humans to the Red Planet as early as the 2030s, experts are cautioning that long-term habitation may not be feasible.
NASA’s interest in Mars stems from its potential to provide insights into both the history of our solar system and the future of Earth. The agency has described Mars as "one of the only other places we know where life may have existed." With numerous robotic missions successfully landing on the planet, the next logical step appears to be manned missions.
A collaborative study involving institutions like UCLA, MIT, and Moscow’s Skolkovo Institute has shed light on the environmental dangers that astronauts would face on Mars.
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