How Would Humans Decompose on Mars?

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There is no doubt that Mars is a prime candidate when it comes to the list of planets where humans may expand to and live on. We are learning more and more about it, and there’s a number of spacecrafts that are on their way towards this planet in order to keep gathering the scientific data. It is only a matter of time until we send the human crew on the exploration mission. One of the questions about Mars is centered not on living there, but the mechanism of decomposition and decay of human bodies after we die.

Key Takeaways:

The atmosphere of Mars is is only 0.16 percent oxygen, but most of the bacteria in human bodies requires oxygen to live.
The cold of Mars would freeze the bodies, causing them to dry out and mummify.
Cremation would require a lot of energy, while buried bodies would not decompose.

“On Earth, human remains eventually decompose as the environment recycles the body’s biomass, the organic material that makes us up.”

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