This plan for the Colonization of Mars is only possible in our time if the concentration of view is limited to the essentials.
This is not about seeing if there was life on mars millions of years ago - it is simply about putting life on Mars now.
It is about the Realisation of the new economics to solve the financing of such a plan.
It is critical that only proven technology is used, there is no time for experimenting - what works in space around Earth will also work anywhere in space that is reasonably close to a Sun