What Would Happen If You Lived On Mars?

Living on Mars begins with the hardest part, which is getting to the ground alive. Mars has an atmosphere, but it is thin, less than 1 percent as dense as Earth's at the surface. That creates a cruel problem. There is enough air to generate searing heat as your capsule plows into it at roughly 12,000 miles per hour, but not nearly enough to slow you down the way thick air does on Earth. A parachute alone cannot save you. Your descent would still be far too fast when you reached the surface, fast enough to turn the entire vehicle into a crater.