🔬 Science Apr 9, 2026 · Andy Tomaswick

Could We Actually Terraform Mars? A New Scientific Roadmap Lays Out the Blueprint—And the Risks

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Could We Actually Terraform Mars? A New Scientific Roadmap Lays Out the Blueprint—And the Risks
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Reading the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson brings the benefits and pitfalls of efforts to terraform the Red Planet into sharp relief. Since the 1970s, when Carl Sagan first suggested the possibility that we could make Mars more Earth-like, that process has been a staple of science fiction. But there’s always been a significant amount of humanity that thinks we shouldn’t. A new paper available in pre-print on arXiv from Edwin Kite of the University of Chicago and his co-authors skirts aroun

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