At the moment plants couldn’t survive on Mars as they would lack the ingredients for them to live, which are key nutrients in the ground as food, plus the carbon dioxide gas and most of all water they need to photosythsise and generate energy for themselves. Even if we resolved these problems, the sun’s energy is weaker on Mars, so it may be harder for plants used to Earth’s conditions to get enough energy to photosythsise anyways. It would be the bigggest challenge in living on mars, getting planets to grow properly! We’d porbably need special shelters to live in, filled with oxygen with plants grown inside in rooms with special lighting to help them grow.
Hi rankeelanj,
Plants need oxygen for respiration, they need liquid water to drink. The Martian atmosphere has no oxygen, and temperatures are too low, so any water would be ice. So plants would not be able to live.
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