• Question: do you think people should go to mars xx!

    Asked by chloe and toni and jordan to Dan, Christie, David on 21 Jun 2016. This question was also asked by CCK.
    • Photo: Christie Waddington

      Christie Waddington answered on 21 Jun 2016:


      I think people should go to Mars in order to learn more about space, the universe and other planets in general but personally I don’t think that Mars is our best option for a replacement planet! There are some planets that have been identified by the NASA Keplar Space Telescope which would be more like Earth but we need more technology to get us there.

      So in the short-term, I think we could learn a lot about going to Mars. In the long-term, I’m not sure if Mars is our best option.

    • Photo: David Robertson

      David Robertson answered on 21 Jun 2016:


      I think people will eventually go to Mars, but will go back to the moon first.

      We can actually do science very well with robotic spacecraft, and there are several driving around the surface at the moment. http://mars.nasa.gov/msl/

      The reason for going to Mars is to work out how to let humans explore further into our solar system, it is not the most efficient way to learn about Mars, but it does make us learn lots about ourselves.

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