Pursuing `` green '' initiatives is no long-term solution to the wall we 're hurtling towards , says Ashley Dove-Jay . Dove-Jay : Launching missions to Mars would use less energy than those to the Moon . The moon has a much larger surface area and can be used for more things like manufacturing goods or even as an outpost in space.
Pursuing `` green '' initiatives is no long-term solution to the wall we 're hurtling towards , says Ashley Dove-Jay . Dove-Jay : Launching missions to Mars would use less energy than those to the Moon . Mars program certainly has challenges to overcome , but technological gap between us and Mars is smaller than it was for the Moon program in 1960s , he adds .