Why People Should Not Go To Mars?

Imagine very little water source, never returning to Earth. Imagine standing in the middle of a sand storm, one of the many dangers on Mars. With no return to Earth, barely any water, hard conditions and dangers for anyone who goes, regular sand storms...This all proves that NASA should not send people to Mars. There’s a lot more research about space and Mars that needs to be done so we can know what other precautions to take before humans go and settle on Mars.

People should not go to Mars because it is dangerous, people would never return home and it can have negative changes to people’s bodies in more than just one way, there’s very little water supply, and the environment is harsh. There are so many contrary details about going, so the question stands, why risk it and go to Mars?

First of all, anyone who goes to Mars could never return home. We know this because, the text states, “...as long as you don’t mind that you can never return to Earth” (Ross). The author states this for the readers to be informed of what the people that are going to Mars are going to go through, and what other humans possibly, one day, could too! All of the conversations with people’s family would become digital and they’d never breathe Earth’s oxygen again. Is it really worth losing that much?

This can be seen in the text where Ross writes, “Space travel is hard physically; in addition, being isolated for a long period of time can be tough mentally” (Ross). It can be hard because people’s bodies would go through so many different changes. It could be hard mentally because Ross says, “So what happens to the body in space? For starters, muscles weaken and bones grow brittle” (Ross). Overtime, it might be enough to kill humans or make them so weak they couldn’t walk. Hence, people might not be able to do the work and research that needs to get done on