The New New

Orange Skin, Thick Bones, and All the Other Ways the Human Body Could Change on Mars

Elevated radiation could cause higher mutation rates, speeding up the evolutionary process on the red planet

Michael Wall
OneZero
Published in
6 min readNov 9, 2018

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Going to Mars will change us — and not just in a touchy-feely, metaphysical way.

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Michael Wall
OneZero

Senior writer at Space.com and author of Out There, a book about the search for alien life that will be published on Nov. 13, 2018.