why have you decided to try get to mars first instead of helping earth first as we might not be able to live on mars

Question: why have you decided to try get to mars first instead of helping earth first as we might not be able to live on mars
- Keywords:
  Earth,
  help,
  Mars,
  space exploration
Asked by time130pen on 19 Mar 2020.
- Andrew Ball answered on 19 Mar 2020: last edited 19 Mar 2020 6:42 pm
  
  It’s not ‘instead of’ – we do ‘as well as’; ESA has a world-leading programme of Earth observation missions to monitor and understand our environment, and we understand our own world better by comparing it with others with different climates.

Question: why have you decided to try get to mars first instead of helping earth first as we might not be able to live on mars