After leaving their mark all over the world, it is now time for the human beings to find a place elsewhere to accommodate gradually growing community and cater their needs. This time NASA plans to colonize Mars, by means of plantation on the planet and make the place habitable for humans.

NASA scientists are examining a high altitude pine forest in a Mexican volcano Pico de Orizaba in order to find the practicalities of colonizing Mars. Mars has an average temperature of -55 degree Celsius, far too cold for the plant habitation. This temperature can be increased by introducing global warming gases, like nitrous oxide and methane to make the planet warmer. The entire process can be initiated not before 50 years and NASA scientists are quite serious about this project, recent news confirmed.

This was inevitable. The increasing population and worsening of mineral storage all over the world have caused the scientists to think beyond the territory of this planet. Thousands of years of continuous abuse have seen the natural resources drying up in a strangely alarming manner.

The excessive use of greenhouse gases or popularly known as global warming gases has done enough damage to our own planet. Now it is time to use these very gases and more specifically their warming nature to create an environment on Mars that can suit plantation, and finally human population. This is ironic, and needs to be dealt very carefully.

It is all right that we are moving to Mars, but the fundamental question still remains. How long will this colonization support our growing needs and cater to our destructive lifestyles? We need to choose from the options whether we need to go finding colony after colony in the universe, or we should change our own lifestyle to make our planet a better place. The question is daunting and unfortunately, the zeal to find answers to it is missing.

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