The real question is, why?
Why are elites constantly sending rovers, probes, and now looking into sending people to Mars? What are they looking for, have they found it yet? When they do find it, what are they going to do with it?
Perhaps they're searching for whatever superweapon destroyed Mars and they wish to bring it here as an insurance policy. Just in case their peasant underlings ever accidentally think for themselves and try to overturn the status quo.