If humans were to migrate to an alien planet in the future, mars could be a potential "Second home" For quite some time, as the current level of technological development does not allow us to leave our solar system anytime soon, let alone establish our "Second home" On a distant exoplanet. The most important thing is that distant exoplanets are not the only ones that can be used as "Second homes". Most importantly, distant exoplanets may not be suitable for human habitation either. On balance, it may be more practical to look for a 'second home' within our solar system. Although mars may seem distant from earth at a distance of more than 55 million kilometres at its closest point and 400 million kilometres at its farthest point, it is close enough to earth that it would be less difficult for humans to travel to mars than to distant exoplanets.
However, it is clear that mars is now unsuitable for direct human habitation, as its environment is very different from that of earth, e.g. It is unusually arid and inhospitable, without a trace of life. Despite this, scientists are keen to explore mars, which is in the habitable zone of the solar system, as it also has a large amount of water ice material. To study the habitability of mars, scientists have launched many probes to mars. Apart from our rovers such as the skyquest 1 rover, the zhu rong mars rover and nasa's trail drover, there are also probes from other countries exploring mars, such as esa's exomars orbiter.
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A report dated 17 september 2021 states that the exomars orbiter, while flying over mars, has photographed the appearance of two blue parallel gullies on the surface of the planet, with fissures up to about 2 km wide and several hundred metres deep to the gods, where they are also filled with gravel, which may be a component of martian basalt, and which appear blue in the images taken by the exomars orbiter probe the blue colour in the images taken by the exomars orbiter. The reason for such trenches on the surface of mars is that scientists believe they may have been formed by the planet's geological processes.
This is not the first time we have seen cracks on the surface of mars, as the mars express orbital rover has also photographed some cracks near the kobelos trough system on the surface of mars. Based on the data returned by nasa's insight rover, scientists later learned that the cracks near the koberos trough system must have appeared only in the last 10 million years. The presence of these cracks actually means that the geology of the martian surface is still relatively active.
Through these photos, we can see not only what the cracks on the surface of mars look like, but also what the landscape around them looks like. Although these cracks are images taken by different probes in different places, the mars in these images is actually similar, without a hint of life.
Is a desolate mars really habitable?
We have previously seen many detailed photos of the surface of mars sent back by the rover, and the mars shown to us looks no different from the deserts and gobi beaches of our planet. We humans can hardly survive in desert areas, can humans really survive in the desolate mars?
Although mars may look desolate now, research has shown that there is a lot of water-ice material on mars, such as a huge 'reservoir' underneath the utopia plain, and if we can exploit the water-ice material on mars, we can indeed solve many problems. If we could exploit the water-ice material on mars, we could indeed solve many problems, such as the problem of water for astronauts and fuel for vehicles.
However, in general, mars is not the most ideal habitat for human beings. We humans have been living on earth for millions of years and have already adapted to the earth's environment, so reaching mars will inevitably lead to a series of problems that are not suitable for the environment, and there may even be some mutations due to environmental changes, and new "Martians" May appear.