One part of this plan would require increasing the planet’s atmospheric pressure, and one scientist suggests that capturing celestial objects from the Kuiper Belt—which are full of the necessary light ...

If future Mars colonizers want to survive without pressure suits, they’ll need to generate a denser atmosphere. One way to ...

THERE are lots of ideas on how humans can terraform Mars, and turn the dusty, radioactive Red Planet into something habitable. Scientists have suggested we start with Antarctic desert moss ...

In the long term, these efforts could extend to the entire planet to make Mars "Earth-like." This process is known as "terraforming," and many proposals have been made over the past 50 years.

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A rock containing many smaller round stones could indicate that there was once a large amount of liquid water on the Red ...

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It’s definitely a difficult plan, but then again, no one ever said terraforming Mars would be easy.