Mongabay seeks to raise interest in and appreciation of wild lands and wildlife, while examining the impact of emerging trends in climate, technology, economics,and finance on conservation and development.
Scientific American
On Exploring Mars and Saving Endangered Species
The act of going to the Red Planet gives us a new lens through which we can better understand and protect life’s fragility
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Now that a helicopter has flown on Mars and oxygen is being manufactured there, children today might start imagining themselves on the Red Planet going to school, tending plants and playing sports in 38 percent of Earth gravity. It feels almost inevitable that humans will eventually land there, building small biospheres with plants, microbes, and humans intertwined in a tightly controlled ecosystem. When we go, we will bring some of Earth’s species to Mars, such as the microbes on our skin, and we might even find some life already there.