Mars - Why it could be our future home
Classification/Introduction ( What is Mars? )
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun, known as the Red Planet and is home to the largest mountain, Olympus Mons, but why is it so widely known? Well, Mars is a very famous planet, a neighbour to our home Earth. It’s placed closely at the edge of the Goldilocks Zone, just like Venus, this means that it is capable of life.
What does this mean?
Many Scientists have argued about the topic of terraforming Mars, and making
Mars a future, habitable planet. Though there are many risks. It would possibly be a last resort to sustaining human life in the situation that Earth is no longer habitable due to a catastrophic event. For Example, Asteroid impact, Rogue technology, Supervolcano eruption, Alien interaction and many more. In the event, scientists believe that Mars could be a possible home in the situation, though, this means that we may have to abandon our original planet, Earth.
How could we achieve this?
The thought occurred as early as the 1960s. Meaning that there has been
many ideas and inventions already made. At the very moment, the Curiosity rover is on the surface of Mars, studying and exploring more of Mars and helping humans learn more about this interesting planet. 
More early projects such as Biosphere-2 (A project where several people were cut from civilization and had to survive in an environment like Mars, and had to survive using a certain amount of tools.) have also been developed, however, Biosphere-2 is also a great example for failed projects, of course, there will be many failures towards many projects, but some have turned out to be successful. It’s impossible to know how we could terraform Mars now. Over time we will slowly be closer to the success of terraforming Mars (If we were planning to that is).
What have we already done?
As I’ve mentioned, a Rover is exploring Mars at this very moment, analysing
The surface of Mars. One day a human will set foot on Mars, and humanity
would’ve claimed yet another location in space. Though the Biosphere-2 had not succeeded, it’s failure had turned out helpful, alerting us of the many likely problems of Mars. So far, many Space Stations have spoken about the idea of going to Mars, here is a large info-graphic from NASA themselves, talking about the journey of visiting Mars.
Are there problems?
There are many. For example, we may lose a lot of lives during the process of getting to Mars. Are resources may not even work on Mars, in fact, terraforming Mars may not even be possible! But we don’t know that yet, it could always be possible, quantum physics 101 bruh. Anyways, problems such as reduction of lives during the attempt of getting to Mars, wasting resources as they may be of no effect on Mars, making it impossible to escape to Space by destroying too many objects in Earth’s orbit, creating an imprisoning shield of metal shuttle parts. There could also be obstructions to Mars, like money, government decisions and many more.
Conclusion
Terraforming Mars for our future would be risky, but certainly should be worth it, there will be many arguments about the topic, but it’s likely it will happen. But only time can tell, so in the meantime, just sit back and watch humanity grow.
