How Many People Does It Take to Start a Colony on Mars?
It might only take 22 people to establish a settlement on Mars , though that small group of cosmic habitant should have conformable personality types to survive on the Red Planet , according to new research . Mars has been home to robotic explorers for well-nigh 60 years , but when it comes to landing humans on the Red Planet , things get a little more complicated . In a recentstudyuploaded to the preprint arXiv server , a chemical group of scientist decide to look into the behavioral and psychological interactions among future Mars colonists and came up with a surprisingly low population size they say could build and sustain the colony : 22 would - be - Martians ....