1.0Festival della Diplomaziahttps://www.festivaldelladiplomazia.eu/en/Giorgia Facishttps://www.festivaldelladiplomazia.eu/en/author/giorgia_facis/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="GNJ4UAK8xU"><a href="https://www.festivaldelladiplomazia.eu/en/eventi/exogeography/">Exogeography: the humanistic side of knowledge in space exploration</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.festivaldelladiplomazia.eu/en/eventi/exogeography/embed/#?secret=GNJ4UAK8xU" width="600" height="338" title="“Exogeography: the humanistic side of knowledge in space exploration” — Festival della Diplomazia" data-secret="GNJ4UAK8xU" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); /* ]]> */ </script> https://www.festivaldelladiplomazia.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/pexels-spacex-586030.jpg1200800History teaches us how sometimes the only way that humanity has for survival is migration. Our planet is now facing multiple challenges, particularly the climate and environmental crises. In 2006 Michael Griffin, at the time the NASA administrator, affirmed that a species in only one planet won’t survive in the long term. In the last years this possibility was conceived from governments and privates, which have been making efforts to exponentially develop technological progress, in particular from the space perspective.However, both the journey and life on Mars, our neighbor-planet, represent unsurpassable challenges. In the first place, even if probes and satellites have been already sent on the Red Planet, the journey represents too great an obstacle: it takes from 6 to 8 months to get to Mars taking advantage of the most favorable alignment with the Earth. Assuming that one day humanity could land on the planet, it would face several complications. In the first place, temperatures can drop to 140 degrees below the zero and the atmosphere is composed by the 96% from carbon dioxide, making it unbreathable.Furthermore, Mars has a magnetic field insufficient to shield high energy cosmic particels from the Sun and the space, which are dangerous to humans and technologies. Finally, since gravity is almost one third of the Earth’s one, giant sandstorms of abrasive, and poisonous sand, can easily rise up on the Martian surface, eventually covering the entire planet. Another problem will be the definition of rules that would regulate social and civil relations between the new comers and, last but not least, the evolution and the impact of demography in the geography of the outer space. In conclusion, expanding human boundaries into space would seem to require overcoming several health and technological limitations but at the same time it must be considered a real possibility for survival the human population.