7 Ways to Survive on Mars

Mars is the closest planet to Earth, but the Martian atmosphere is extreme and hostile for humans. If humans want to live on Mars someday, there are a lot of preparations they will need to make! Humans living on Mars will need to make their own oxygen, extract water from Martian ice, grow food in the toxic soil, build homes that are safe from radiation and solve other problems. These are major difficulties, but some very clever scientific ideas exist for how to solve them.