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The desire for humans to land on Mars didn't just emerge in recent years; it appeared long ago.

In fact, humanity has always been curious about Mars, yearning to set foot on it since the earliest times when humans discovered the red planet with the naked eye.

Back then, it was considered the abode of gods, deities, and ancestors. Later, with the advent of various observation devices, people's understanding of it grew, and their curiosity increased.

Decades ago, people stopped fantasizing about landing on Mars and began to conceive and formulate feasible scientific landing plans.

For example, developing super-large rockets to send landing personnel and equipment in one go.

Or using smaller rockets to transport equipment and people in batches.

Another idea was to assemble a huge spacecraft in Earth orbit, like assembling a space station, and send both people and cargo together.

Nuclear rockets were also considered essential, as they could continuously propel the spacecraft, increasing its speed and reducing the need for large amounts of chemical fuel, which would only add useless mass.

Going even further than reliable plans were science fiction works, where people were already imagining what life on Mars would be like.

However, from the beginning of planning to the present, the planned dates have been exceeded one after another, and no astronaut has yet set foot on Mars.

What has caused humanity's delay in landing on Mars?

At the beginning of the plans, many people believed that technology limited humans.

For example, the Martian environment differs greatly from Earth's environment. To land on Mars, one would face a series of challenges, including lack of water, lack of oxygen, high temperatures, extreme cold, and the possibility of encountering dust storms.

Dust storms on Mars are rare, occurring only twice a year, once for 11 Martian months and once for 330 Martian days.

Well, that means dust storms on Mars last for half a year at a time, and a Martian year has over six hundred days.

Ahem, that's a bit of an exaggeration, but it shows that dust storms on Mars are very severe.

There aren't dust storms that last for half a year, but there are dust storms that last for several months and cover half of Mars, or even engulf the entire planet.

So, landing on Mars is undoubtedly difficult and dangerous.

But as time has passed, humanity's technological strength has greatly increased.

Humans are fully capable of manufacturing closed spacecraft to ensure the safety of astronauts. Water can be transported from Earth, and oxygen cylinders can be prepared. Moreover, if abundant Martian ice mines are found, these resources can be obtained locally.

As for the unpredictable dust storm weather, scientists can analyze and predict it through various information from Mars rovers. It can be said that there are almost no technical difficulties.

In this regard, experts from the American aerospace field have stated: "In these decades or even centuries, people have put forward countless ideas, but none of this has been realized. Frankly speaking, what limits humanity's landing on Mars is not technology, but... political factors."

"When will humans be able to land on Mars? Technical personnel cannot make the decision."

Political issues are always more complex and difficult to solve. Solving this problem would be equivalent to achieving world peace, so for now, it seems unsolvable.

But now, landing on Mars is no longer just an internal matter for humanity; it involves external factors, so it certainly cannot be judged using humanity's own standards.

First of all, because there are aliens on Mars, humanity's plan to land on Mars is imperative. You can't avoid landing even if you want to.

This has more political correctness and urgency than the space race of that era.

Now, the political issues have been resolved.

Then there's the issue of technology.

Actually, there's no problem with the technology; it's definitely achievable. But while there's no problem, it still involves a... stratified experience based on the level of technology.

With low technology, you can spend hundreds of billions or trillions of dollars, and you can definitely send astronauts to Mars.

With high technology, you can spend less money, tens of billions, or even billions of dollars.

With the emergence of a technology fanatic, namely Elon Musk and his SpaceX, his initial declaration was to land humans on Mars and build a Martian city, and he even said that he wanted to die on Mars, which sparked another wave of enthusiasm for manned Mars landings.

As for the several months of flight time from Earth to Mars, that's not a problem at all.

At least, that's how some netizens see it. They shouted slogans like "It's okay if they don't come back," "I also want to die on Mars," "I'll accept a one-way ticket," "It's worth it to go to Mars once," and eagerly awaited the execution of the manned landing mission.

Of course, this is just wishful thinking from the netizens. Aerospace companies and agencies will not choose them to go to Mars; it's not their turn.

Landing on Mars, especially the first manned landing on Mars, is a very rigorous matter. Even the most radical people would not let netizens go.

Although humans have not yet landed on Mars, many related experiments have been conducted on the ground, especially experiments related to small spaces, multi-person teams, and long-term survival.

These are basically experiments simulating long-term survival in spacecraft and Martian bases, testing people's patience and seeing what happens to humans when they live in small spaces for a long time.

An astronaut from Tianxia participated in this type of experiment.

Two years ago, it was the departure date of the "Human Mars Fleet," which was the sequential launch date of three unmanned Mars probes from three countries.

A full two years have passed, which means that in about two months, there will be another new Mars exploration window.

Because of the aliens, as the Mars exploration window approaches, people are once again shifting their attention to Mars.

Even though Tianxia has been constantly making moves, the construction of the Heavenly Palace space station has not stopped. It will become the first space station in the human world visible to the naked eye from the ground. People will occasionally look up at it, but as time approaches, people's attention is gradually shifting to Mars.

Moreover, people have noticed that the major aerospace powers are a bit strange this year. During the last launch of the "Human Mars Fleet," many countries announced their Mars exploration plans and later plans.

Didn't Europa's Mars probe get delayed last time? They said they would launch it this time, but so far, there's no news. I wonder what happened.

There are also countries that originally planned to launch Mars-orbiting probes this window, but now there's no sound from them either.

But these are not what people care about. What people really want to see is Tianxia and America.

In terms of plans for Mars and aliens, it is estimated that only these two countries have the ability to do something.

They now have the technology, the funding, and the military strength, and they are also the default leading countries of humanity. If they don't take the lead, who will?

Chapter Two will be at 12 o'clock.