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Mars would provide a stepping-stone, among other things, to the other celestial bodies. Titan is rich for hydrocarbon processing, deuterium and helium-3, for example.
We'd need to to do Mars and figure out all that's required, not only for longer space flights than we have done, but also what's required to survive long periods of times unsupported. So some sort of habitat structure, since we can't haul enough food, growing some of your own locally, etc, etc, before we take on the even longer distances involved in doing the same on the Jovian moons.
You have to walk before you run.