A Big Leap For Mankind? How Living On Mars Could Affect Human Bodies

Interested in living on Mars? Learn if your bodies could take the hit!

Among the wildest of dreams, one would be to live on Mars. Space exploration and technology are taking things up a notch and slowly people are getting the idea that life on Mars would not be such a unimaginable idea. While that may be true and probably in some thousands of years later humans might have the option to live on Mars (because the already seem so bored of earth, LOL), it would still be a long way before our bodies could handle adapting in such harsh conditions. Living on Mars might be cool idea, but as of now it does not seem ideal anatomically. Here are a few ways Mars can affect the human bodies!

Mars Could Even Make Your Blood Boil, Literally

You may be living on Mars but that would not be for long. Radiation exposure is one of the top health risks that astronauts going to Mars are warned about. However, that is still not one of the most dangerous ways that Mars can affect your body. Mar’s low atmospheric pressure could make you lose your life in a matter of seconds. The low atmospheric pressure on Mars results from its thin atmospheric layer, a hundred times thinner than that of the Earth. Living on Mars, therefore, could make your blood boil, even at the ambient temperature. The gases running through the bloodstream would transform into bubbles and you would fizz to death in seconds.

There Is No Free Oxygen On Mars For You To Breathe

If you love to breathe, Mars is not your place to live. Earth’s atmosphere has seventy eight percent of nitrogen and twenty one percent of oxygen –the oxygen that you breathe so freely and the reason you are alive mostly. Mar’s atmosphere has ninety percent of carbon dioxide. Living on Mars with so much of carbon dioxide would kill you of hypoxia.

Your Body Can’t Handle Freezing Temperature And Toxic Dust

The temperature of Mars will freeze you to death in a few hours. The daytime temperature on Mars is bearable but the night sees temperature as low as minus 62 degrees Celsius and that’s something your body wouldn’t be able to handle unless you have an optimum thermal protection. Mars also has toxic dust that would not let you live for more than a few weeks.