French Professor Jean-Marc Salute said that it would need at least 110 people to start a new civilization on Mars.
This number of people will ensure that sufficient equipment and supplies are available to sustain life before the supplies brought from the planet Earth are implemented with the pioneers who have reached the Red Planet.
Any human colony on Mars must establish a habitat in the form of domes filled with oxygen, and initiate agriculture and other industries.
Professor Salute, from the French National Institute of Bordeaux of the Polytechnic, who conducted this study, assumes that the support from the ground has ceased for various reasons such as the outbreak of destructive wars or the lack of sufficient resources, or that the new Martian settlers want to declare an independent state with them and are separated from the state that sent them from Earth.
In 2015, Hollywood produced a movie starring American star Matt Damon, entitled "Mars", and talks about a trip to the Red Planet.
Damon was playing the Labyrinth on the surface of Mars. But scientist Jean-Marc says he would be able to create a habitat for him on Mars if he had 109 colleagues on the planet.
Saluti used mathematical patterns to determine "the possibility to stay on another planet and remain self-sufficient" and said that staying on Mars will depend on access to the planet's natural resources and on working conditions in addition to other "scientific assumptions".
American billionaire Elon Musk, director of SpaceX, the maker of spacecraft, hopes that the day will come when people can settle Mars, which is 140 million kilometers from Earth.
"The issue of access to Mars is an issue of exceptional importance for the future of space science successes and perhaps for the future of humanity in general," says Saluti.