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Grow On Mars

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To live on Mars we have to be able to grow food. Foods that grow fast and don’t need an excessive amount of water. Some of those foods are: green onions, lettuce, baby carrots, spinach, kale, peas, bush beans, turnips, cucumber and squash. The longest amount of time that some of these plants will take to grow is 80 days. The least amount of days that it will take to grow some of them is 10 days. Another plant called the snake plant gives off oxygen for humans. It is a small plant, the leaves are 2-4 inches wide, and several feet long. It is one of the best plants for low light areas. In other words it doesn’t need that much light. It doesn’t need very much water either.
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They will need oxygen because, they need to breathe because the air on Mars is not breathable. They will need water because you can only go 3 days without water and then you will die and it takes a year to get to Mars. They will need sunlight, because all living things need sunlight to survive because it gives you Vitamin D. They will need food because without food your liver will start to take fat from your body to keep it alive and that would cause you to die. And lastly they will need a good enough climate because, living organisms need heat because if they get too cold their body will start to shut down.
The environment of Mars is very hostile, because the atmosphere is 100 times thinner than earth. 95% of Mars is carbon dioxide, and living things cant breathe in carbon dioxide. It only has 1/3 of the amount of gravity that we have on earth, so we would need to have a way to hold us down so that we could walk normally. The years on Mars, also called "Martian Years" are two times longer than a regular 360 day, year on Earth. The temperatures on Mars will make it very difficult to live there. The lowest temperature that it can get there is –195 degrees Fahrenheit. The highest temperature that it can get there is 70 degrees Fahrenheit. By living on Mars you have a 3% chance of getting cancer from the UV and radiation rays. Although the soil on Mars can protect living organisms a small amount of the time from the UV and radiation

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