How difficult was it to immigrate to Mars for the first time?

Speaking of Mars, as early as decades ago, many scientists planned to transform it and immigrate to Mars in the future. I still remember watching TV news when I was a child, and I once saw similar reports in the news broadcast.

However, now that mankind has entered the 265438+1920s, the Great Migration of Mars is still far away. Of course, this is also related to the lack of human science and technology. So, how should humans transform Mars?

Can Mars really be transformed into a "second earth"?

Let's see why we must transform Mars. Some friends may say, is it bad for human beings to live on the earth? Why spend a lot of time and money to transform Mars? And this project may not be successful, even if it is successful, I don't know how many years later.

Instead of spending a lot of investment on Mars, it is better to use these investments to protect the earth, help the development of human science and technology, and let human beings survive on the earth for a long time.

This view is certainly correct, but all children know that "eggs can't be put in the same basket". Simply put, once disaster strikes, human civilization may never survive.

However, if we disperse human civilization into the universe, even if the earth becomes uninhabitable in the future, there is still a way for human civilization to continue. Simply put, as long as you keep a spark, you will start a prairie fire.

At the same time, whether from the perspective of the evolution of the solar system or from the perspective of the earth itself, it is impossible to be suitable for human beings forever. This also means that human beings cannot live on the earth forever. If they want civilization and sustainable development, they need to plan for themselves in advance, and Mars is our best choice at this stage.

In addition, some people think that the transformation of Mars by human beings is actually a "restoration of Mars" in a strict sense, because years of research show that although Mars looks desolate today, it was also a livable planet in its early days, but for some reasons, this planet has now fallen into a "deep sleep", and human beings are just helping Mars restore its original appearance.

What should humans do? Simply put, the transformation of Mars is divided into two steps: building an ecosystem and simulating the earth's environment. Let's analyze it item by item.

Let's look at the first point: building an ecosystem. Simply put, it is to restore the livability of Mars, so that Mars will once again have a strong atmosphere and liquid water, and at the same time, the surface will be warmed up. In this way, a prototype of Mars similar to the early Earth was basically established.

Now, scientists have found that there is a lot of water ice in the polar regions of Mars. In this way, the water ice on Mars can be melted by some means, which will naturally bring liquid water to Mars. At the same time, the establishment of a nuclear plant on Mars can also make greenhouse gases accumulate rapidly on Mars, thus making the atmosphere of Mars thick and play a role in heat preservation.

Of course, after this stage, Mars is only a potentially livable planet for human beings, which is still a little different from the livable planet in human mind. At this time, human beings need to carry out the second step, which is to completely simulate the earth's environment and turn Mars into an aerobic ecosystem.

What does this step need to do? Simply put, it is to move life on earth to Mars. However, the first group of Martian residents from the earth will not be human beings or relatively complex creatures, but will simulate the evolution of early life on the earth and immigrate a group of microorganisms to Mars first.

The first life on Mars will not be human.

I believe many friends know that modern scientific research found that there was no oxygen on early Mars, which means that the earliest life on earth was anaerobic, and they could survive without oxygen.

About 2.5 billion years ago, when the earliest microorganisms capable of photosynthesis were born, the atmospheric structure of the earth began to change. Therefore, in the future, if human beings want to truly completely transform Mars and make it truly become the "second earth", they need to send microbes such as bacteria and algae first, and then let them make oxygen on Mars.

Through these microorganisms, the soil of Mars can be turned into organic soil, thus sending some other life on earth to Mars in batches.

It can also be seen from this point that although human beings have begun to make plans to transform Mars, in fact, human beings may not really immigrate to Mars for hundreds or even thousands of years.

This also means that neither Musk nor other researchers who have rich ideas about Martian immigration can actually send human residents to Mars and achieve permanent settlement in this century.

Scientists have also estimated this. According to the current level of human beings, it will take about 1 0,000 years to transform Mars at the earliest, which means that human beings may have to live on the earth for at least 1 0,000 years before they can really leave the earth and go to the sea of stars.

Just like in The Wandering Earth, before the end, it will take 2,500 years for human beings to "escape" from the solar system with the earth and reach the nearest proxima centauri Centauri system, which requires the concerted efforts of Qi Xin for hundreds of generations. Obviously, it will never be easy for human beings to immigrate into space.

Then, let's look at another question: since researchers believe that Mars was almost the same as the Earth in climate and environment in ancient times, is there life or civilization on Mars?

Will there be life on Mars?

As early as the 1960s, with the arrival of human probes on Mars, the research on whether there is life on Mars has actually begun.

Of all the probes launched to Mars, the most mysterious one is the "Phobos-1 series of probes" launched by the former Soviet Union in July, 1988. Their goal is to detect Phobos and Phobos other than Mars.

However, Phobos 1 suddenly lost contact with the earth on the way to Mars, and researchers who have been monitoring its dynamics on the ground also said that Phobos 1 did not have any fault, but suddenly disappeared.

Of course, this is not the most terrible. What really scares people is the Phobos probe. 1989 1 At the end, the Phobos-2 probe finally arrived on Mars successfully, and it also successfully started the investigation of Phobos.

Everything seems to be going well, but the same strange thing happened to the Phobos 2 probe. 1on March 25th, 989, the Phobos probe suddenly lost its connection mysteriously without any fault, which made many people think that something might have happened to the Phobos probe.

Since a series of Phobos detectors were not independently developed by the former Soviet Union, the former Soviet Union released the last picture taken before the Phobos 2 detector lost contact, in order to explain to its partners.

At the same time, in April of 1989, scientists from the former Soviet Union also published an article in New Scientist magazine, saying that the loss of Phobos-2 probe was indeed related to some "strange" things.

It was not until the disintegration of the former Soviet Union that Russia finally came to light before Phobos lost contact. In the pictures published in Russia, it actually met a "spaceship", which looked like a cigar. According to the researchers' calculation, its total length is about 25 kilometers. When Phobos met it, it was found suspended below Phobos.

Subsequently, the Phobos-2 probe completely lost contact with the earth and could never find its whereabouts. Researchers believe that it may be that when an alien civilization visited Mars, it discovered a detector from the Earth and destroyed it.

There are also views that there may still be civilization on Mars, but human beings are not clear about it. So, what is the possibility of civilization on Mars?

From the perspective of modern scientific research, the answer is extremely small, but from the perspective of some conspiracy theories, the answer may be 100%.

Although Mars once had a livable period, researchers generally believe that because the livable period of Mars is only several hundred million years, there are only some simple life forms and complex life forms on Mars at most, and there is not enough time to reproduce on Mars.

Mars probes, such as Perseverance and Tianwen-1, are looking for the way of life on Mars, but they are also looking for fossils that may contain microorganisms, rather than looking for Martian civilization or complex life.

However, there are indeed many mysteries about the series of encounters of the former Soviet Phobos probe around Mars. Of course, there are many unknown UFOs in the earth's sky. Therefore, it is very likely that the alien Wen Mingzhen discovered Mars and visited it. As for whether they have plans to transform Mars like humans, we don't know. What do you think of this? What do you think of a series of probes of Phobos in the former Soviet Union?