And Mars will be apple blossom ..
52 Russians selected for Mars colonization project, implemented by the Dutch company Mars One. By 2023 the company plans to establish a permanent base on the Red Planet. At the same time the colonialists not guaranteed return to Earth.

On Thursday, January 2, the project organizers reported that over 200,000 people have expressed their desire to settle on Mars.The site Mars One checked, paying 5 to $ 75, volunteers from 107 countries, transfer media. 
Dark areas on the surface of Mars, scientists in the past been associated with water or vegetation. Photo: NASA / Hubble Initial selection of candidates passed in 1058. Most of them are U.S. citizens (297 people), Canada (75), India (62) and Russia. About 77% of the candidates have a job, 15% - study in schools. More than half selected - men under 35 years.
Face of Mars. Original photo taken orbiter "Viking 1" in 1976. Photo: NASA "It was very difficult to separate those who, in our opinion, is really ready to be ambassadors of humanity on Mars, from frivolous related to our mission," - said the founder and CEO of Bass Lansdorp. In 2015 «Mars One» expects to form the first 6 groups of 4 people each: then begin a seven-year preparation for the flight and the colonists survive on the Red Planet.
Bigfoot on Mars. Photo: NASA / JPL / Cornell / James Canvin assumed that first go to Mars robots that from 2016 to 2020 built residential and office units. Mission to Mars will take about 7 months, and in 2023 to Mars spaceship arrives with the first group of settlers - two men and two women. Two years later, another group will replace them. As planned, the official language will be English on Mars. 
What is in the center of the image? Pharaoh statue carved in the Martian rock? Photo: NASA Mars Colonization, according to Dutch scientists, will cost $ 6 billion. Funds for the project company Mars One is going to get from sponsors, as well as by attracting the world's population as audience interactive program that will show the whole mission from beginning to end. Organizers of the project does not hide the fact that the mission is extremely dangerous. Meanwhile, Montreal Concordia University professor and consultant to Mars One Rae Cass remarked: "Someone called suicide and disembark on the moon. But people did it. Do on Mars. "
"Trees" on Mars. Photo: NASA / JPL / University of Arizona Well, on Mars someday blossom apple if not, what are some plants from Earth. We were born to make fairy tale come true ...