Well, good luck to her wanting to go to Mars. There would be the human exploration and the all seasons stays to see that a permanent self-sustaining base can be established. There is water just under the soil as ice which is needed foremost. There are all kinds of dangers such as accidental or overt decompression of the life support gasses, cancer causing protons aplenty from the Sun, farming of crops during its ~2.2 Earth year orbit with the sunlight flux about a quarter of Earth's. Maintenance of equipment with most spare parts made locally. Then ultimately terraforming of the planet with a breathable atmosphere and with high enough temperatures that would sustain liquid water most of the year. This without losing the new atmosphere to the solar wind due to the lack of a magnetic field. And maybe the "canali" that Percival Lowell perceived in the 19th century being visible from the Earth.
Joelene
