Mars is a fascinating planet since it has similarity to our home, Planet Earth, which the only difference is that its size is about to be half the radius of Earth. Planet Mars is also one of the two planets that are close to our Planet Earth alongside the moon. People want to colonize Planet Mars so it will solve our overpopulation problem, but some people are against the idea of colonizing for several reasons. Supporters also state that going to Planet Mars is a good way to learn something new by studying and exploring Mars, but some do not agree to establish a manned flight to Mars and they state Mars is a lifeless planet that it is not worth exploring a ‘dead planet.’ Some people also interested if Mars still has living organisms or inhabitants but, until now, there are no further evidence that there are living inhabitants in Mars.
As stated above, some people want to colonize Planet Mars. They say that our planet is being overpopulated so they think that having another planet as home would solve this kind of problem. They even state that they can even go and colonize other planets with Mars as their first planet to colonize. However, it is impossible to colonize Mars because it lacked oxygen which is impossible to breathe and the planet’s atmosphere consists of almost entirely carbon dioxide and less oxygen. Even with the current technology we have now, it is impossible for scientists to create oxygen in a lifeless planet. This is not just like the futuristic movies we watched in TV such as the Jetsons and video games like HALO; we’ll die due to lack of oxygen. Stating about colonizing other planets is also impossible, planets such as Jupiter are too far for us to reach and quite dangerous. Our spacecrafts cannot travel further and going deeper into space would be a suicide.
On the other hand, there is a possibility that man can establish flight to Mars due to the advanced technology we possessed today. Few years ago, NASA has established an operation to go to Mars and it was a success. Following the 1992 failure of the Mars Observer orbiter, NASA launched the Mars Global Surveyor in 1996 and it was a success. With the current technology, NASA may be able to launch an even more advanced rocket for flight to Mars. Some scientists argue that sending people to Mars can be dangerous because of an accident that cause a rocket to explode in space killing most of the astronauts piloting the rocket few years ago. That accident will not happen again as long as scientists are very observant with the rockets. So it is possible for man to establish flight to Mars.
Many supporters of manned travel to Mars argue that the planet might still have life living on it and they are excited to see real life Martians. We saw in movies that there are life forms on Mars such as ‘Planet 51’ and the famous movie ‘Aliens.’ However, it is not true; there is no life on Mars. Although there are evidences suggest that the planet used to be inhabited by unknown living organisms, it is still not clear since it only shown that it is more inhabitable than it is today. If there were living organisms on Mars, I would not dare to travel there because we do not know what they do or what they will react to see us humans.
It should be known that there are possibilities that man can travel to Mars at last. We have developed our technology and it has been advanced into a whole new level, so why not use it to help to construct a far more advanced rocket for the flight? With the current technology, scientists can establish a more advanced spacecraft that would be easy enough to be piloted by new and veteran Astronauts. People will be able to experience travel in space and see their home planet, Earth, from the rocket and learning the mysteries of space which will be a very good experience for them. So in my opinion, it is worth the expense and risk to make a manned flight to Mars.
