Introduction
“Earth and Mars have a lot in common. They formed around the same time -- about 4.6 billion years ago -- and, as on Earth, a Martian day lasts about 24 hours (Ross, 2016, p.8). This is one of the many reasons why humans should colonize Mars. Humans should colonize Mars because it is the closest planet to Earth within the habitable zone, also with current technology it is the most feasible planet that is within reach of Earth. Colonizing Mars would help Earth with its problems with resources and space control for humans.

Why Mars? The big question to colonizing another planet, is why Mars out of all of the other planets in our solar system? As Thompson (2012) stated, “Mars is more like Earth than any other place in the known universe” …show more content…
That means eventually we can get to other Earth like planets in time but for right now we need to focus on Mars. As you should know other planets in our solar system have a different orbit. Mars orbit is relatively simple, as “Mars goes through cycles of obliquity,or changes in its orbital tilt. Currently, Mars is wobbling back and forth between 15 and 35 degrees’ obliquity, on a timescale of about 100,000 years. But every million years or so, it learns over as much as 60 degrees. Along with these changes in obliquity come changes in climate and atmosphere” (Bortman, 2006, p.2). Now a big reason that we haven’t gotten to Mars yet is the space station. According to Charles Krauthammer (2005), “ So why are we spending so much of our resources building a tinker-toy space station? In part because, a quarter-century late, we still need something to justify the shuttle. Yet the space station’s purpose has shrunk to almost nothing” (p.28). We are still spending resources on a space station that is almost useless. Another thing is that we are so close to being able to get to Mars as Elon “Musk has said