[MRM]

From elementary school through high school I did a lot of research reading up on planetary exploration, specifically colonizing Mars. The comic books and pulp fiction, I mean research materials I read, always depicted human colonies housed in huge glass bubbles on the surface and burrowed below ground. I don't think it's news to anyone who's been paying attention that Mars doesn't have an atmosphere and human colonists will have to live in some sort of man-made structure to survive and will have to use space suits and vehicles to travel outside the dome.