Mars has become the ultimate blank canvas for human ambition, a place where science fiction promises forests under a salmon sky and oceans filling ancient basins. Yet the closer scientists look at the ...

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We’re all revved up for the landing of the Curiosity rover on Mars today, but that doesn’t stop us from dreaming about a more distant future, when Mars is terraformed and turns from a red planet into ...

The idea of terraforming Mars sounds like the stuff of science fiction. Yet, the neighboring Red Planet is also the most Earth-like. So, the idea of making it suitable for human life has always ...