SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -Colonization of Mars would require a wide variety of equipment-both equipment to directly provide services to humans and production equipment used to produce food, propellant, water, energy and breathable oxygen-in order to support human colonization efforts.

Detailed explanation-2: -Scientists Say Uranus. The seventh planet from the Sun should be NASA’s ‘highest priority large mission, ‘ according to the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. Move over, Mars: NASA’s next interplanetary trip may land on Uranus.

Detailed explanation-3: -Many planets within the Solar System have been considered for colonization and terraforming. The main candidates for colonization in the inner Solar System are Mars and Venus. Other possible candidates for colonization include the Moon and even Mercury.

Detailed explanation-4: -Musk, who is the CEO of SpaceX, said that a manned mission is to reach Mars this decade. He founded SpaceX in 2002 with the goal to reduce transportation costs and colonize Mars. Musk believes making life multi-planetary will ease life on an overcrowded earth.

Detailed explanation-5: -Mars is so attractive to human exploration because it exhibits a geological similarity to our home planet, its has a thin atmosphere and may have once been a harbour for life in the early days of the Solar System.

Detailed explanation-6: -Some have also considered exploring the Martian moons of Phobos and Deimos. Long-term proposals have included sending settlers and terraforming the planet. Proposals for human missions to Mars have come from e.g. NASA, European Space Agency, Boeing, and SpaceX.