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One site I found that had a lot of relevant information was about the element thorium. This site has just about everything you need to know about thorium. The site tells you its abundance among other things and how it can be used as clean nuclear fuel. Thorium could be the new oil of Earth or of another planet if we did ever move. Unlike oil it is very abundant and is environmentally friendly. The only problem is finding a cost effective way to extract its energy.  

Another site I found had many facts about the biosphere of Mars. It talks about ways in which we could terraform Mars. The site gives insight to how we could introduce greenhouse gases to Mars to make its atmosphere breathable. At the moment the atmosphere of Mars is inhabitable by humans or any other kind of life. The average temperature is around -100 degrees Celsius. This is way too cold for any human to endure much less any other organism. That is the reason that the introduction of greenhouse gases would be important to raise the temperature.

The picture I put up is just an example of what Mars could like if we terraformed and colonized it. People would live and work in dome like structures. Life would be concealed to the confines of these domes. Any venture outside of these domes would require a space suit.

Lastly, I found a site that explained why Mars would be our best option for terraforming. It compares Earth to Mars. There are several similarities between the two planets. Mars has the “ingredients” and potential to be terraformed and colonized. We as humans have the difficult task of creating the right recipe to turn Mars into a habitable planet.  A lot of factors play into this task. Time is one of them. This big of a project would take hundreds of years.

http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf62.html
http://www.affs.org/html/the_quest_to_terraform_mars.html
http://science.howstuffworks.com/terraforming1.htm