About life on Mars – Going to Mars has always been a far-off dream. But in as little as ten years’ time, it may just become a reality. NASA hopes to do a three-year mission to Mars by the 2030s. Mars One, a non-profit organization, has even loftier goals of establishing a permanent colony on Mars by 2024 while also documenting it all for television.
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Elon Musk, the tech billionaire, recently announced his plans to establish a colony on Mars in an attempt to save humans from extinction.
With interplanetary travel being such a hot topic of conversation lately, just what, exactly, would life on Mars look like for the humanoid? While Mars and Earth are often considered sisters, daily life would look fundamentally different. Reaching Mars, a trip that would be between 150 to 300 days, would be the easy part. Humans would be establishing an entirely new civilization, which would bring challenges that those left on Earth would never understand. With that, here are 15 things you may not have known about life on Mars.
13. Mars Will Alter Your Body
Although Earth and Mars are often called “sister planets,” the inhospitable Martian environment will likely take a serious toll on the human body, some threats which may even be deadly. For example, the perpetual red dust contains carcinogens, which could negatively affect health as well as cause allergies.
It’s possible that the red dust could burn the skin similar to that of bleach, but it hasn’t been proven yet. Too much exposure to the Martian soil, which contains a chemical called perchlorates, have been shown to negatively impact the thyroid as well.
Then there’s the toll that a reduced level of gravity would take on your body. Humans would lose their muscle mass, which would make their arms and legs smaller and cause their hearts to become less strong. They would get osteoporosis. The loss of calcium would then enter the bloodstream and cause a series of health problems from constipation to kidney stones and even depression. This is only a small look into the health problems that could occur if humans were to leave their native planet in favour of another one.
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