Sunday, July 06, 2008

Let's terraform the red planet!

According to the latest news:
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An experiment on the Phoenix Mars lander showed the dirt on the planet’s northern arctic plains to be alkaline, though not strongly alkaline, and full of the mineral nutrients that a plant would need.

“We basically have found what appears to be the requirements, the nutrients, to support life whether past, present or future,”
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From: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/science/space/27MARS.html

Terraforming:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming_of_Mars
http://science.howstuffworks.com/terraforming.htm

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~mfogg/zubrin.htm

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