Two suggested methods are a radiation shield (which is heavy and hard to transport from Earth to Mars) or living underground in Martian caves or lava tubes. Further, oxygen needs to be produced by removing it from the water that already exists on Mars or by bringing it from Earth.įinally, with the added solar radiation on Mars, there will need to be some kind of radiation protection for Martian inhabitants. The proportion could be 40% nitrogen, 40% argon, and 20% oxygen.īut to get these gases from the atmosphere, carbon dioxide will have to be “scrubbed” (removed) from the air. The main method that’s been suggested is by recycling the nitrogen and argon that’s present in the Martian atmosphere and adding oxygen to it. Every journey in space is extremely dangerous. Current rockets take about seven months to reach Mars after covering 480 million kilometres (300 million miles). 'The journey to the Moon will last several days, yes, while a flight to Mars. Worry not, a rocket company is currently testing nuclear rockets that will cut down travel time to Mars to just one month. Which means less resources consumed by the astronauts, and a lower radiation load. The space expert reckons it could take just over half a year for humans to travel to Mars using the nuclear system. This means that people are going to have to live inside self-sustaining habitats.įirstly, the habitats will have to be able to create and recycle the right proportions of gases for humans to breathe. A nuclear thermal rocket could cut the transit time in half, maybe even 100 day trips to Mars. To keep the round-trip crewed mission duration to about two years, at a minimum. Space nuclear propulsion systems could enable shorter total mission times and provide enhanced flexibility and efficiency for mission designers. And, there are much higher levels of radiation. NASA’s goal is to minimize the time the crew travels between Earth and Mars to as close to two years as is practical. The Martian atmosphere is thinner, and much colder, and made up of over 95% carbon dioxide, with only 0.13% oxygen. But what would it look like in real life? Science fiction has provided plenty of solutions to this problem. The Martian landscape is inhospitable to humans. 'Nuclear Fusion rocket technology has the ability to half mission times to Mars and could open up the possibility of visiting planets outside of our solar system,' Pulsar Fusion claims.
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