In “We’re Going to Mars!” the author’s viewpoint is that colonizing Mars would be an important moment in human history.

How is this viewpoint best conveyed in the text?


by comparing the colonization of Mars to the discovery of the New World

by proving that colonizing Mars will lead to the discovery of new rocks and sediments

by explaining that colonizing Mars would require a lot of resources

by arguing that the first forms of life on Earth are similar to the bacterial forms of life on Mars