In 20-40 years, there will be a million robots and several dozen people on Mars. People will have to make a base deep under the surface, since the radiation doses are very high on the surface. The same underground city can be made on Earth. But why - when there is beauty of life on the surface of the Earth. I don't want to go to Mars, but I would visit a planet similar to Earth in another star system.
That beauty is surprisingly fragile from the human perspective. A few A-bombs and it all changes.