Terraforming Mars Isn’t Impossible. New Study Describes First Step.

Image caption: Mars – Dunes in Hellas Planitia. Image credit: mariagat mariagat via Flickr. Public domain. Article by Andy Tomaswick, Universe Today. ScienceAlert – April 8, 2025. Original article published by Universe Today. Paper: Energy problems of terraforming Mars.

Terraforming Mars has been the long-term dream of colonization enthusiasts for decades. But when you start to grapple with the actual physics of what would be necessary to do so, the effort seems further and further out of reach. Depictions like those of Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy are just wildly unrealistic regarding the sheer amount of material that must be moved to the Red Planet to achieve anything remotely resembling Earth-like conditions. […]

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