Mars got it’s name from the Romans which stands for God of War. Mars is also known as the “Red Giant,” because of the way it looks. You may wonder how Mars got its nickname “Red Giant.” This has to do …show more content…
This sounds like it could be true because there isn’t much of a difference between Mars and Earth. The big problems with colonizing Mars is oxygen and liquid water. Having liquid water on Mars is possible though because features on the surface suggest that water once flowed. Even though there is no sign of liquid water on Mars astronomers have found water is frozen in the soil, and in sheets of ice in the polar ice caps (Sharp). A way to get oxygen on Mars would be to grow plants. Mars is ninety-five percent carbon dioxide (Sharp) which plants need to survive and grow. In return, plants would give off oxygen for us to breath. Even if we did this the gravity on Mars would not be able to keep oxygen in its