Mars: the red planet. It's been stoking the fires of our interplanetary imagination for generations yet we still haven't managed to visit our neighbor in person, let alone set up any long envisioned permanent colonies. Astrophysicist Paul Sutter explains the barriers complicating humanity's efforts to put roots down on Mars, how we might overcome them, and what it would look like to expand our footprint across the solar system.

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