Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live on a different planet? Mars is a planet that I have always wondered about. Could we live on Mars? There would be many challenges if we were ever to get there. However, it is one of the planets in our solar system that can be habitable by us.
Mars is called “The Red Planet” due to its rusted surface from “…the compound iron(III) oxide [that] appears red because it absorbs the blue and green wavelengths of the light spectrum reflecting the red wavelengths” (Wolchover). Mars has a bloody tint that is visible from millions of miles away and even earlier civilizations have called Mars “Her Desher” which means “the red one.” And the Chinese have called it “the fire star” (Wolchover).
