Could We Terraform Mars?

This video was published by PBS on September 16, 2019 and has already had 367,339 Views.
This is more of an educational perspective of what it would take to Terraform Mars, but if we are serious about landing man on Mars and setting up small scientific settlements, then we need to think about Terraforming Planet Mars over some period of time...

NOTE: This video is very interesting and does include some great possibilities... It is slightly over 19 minutes long, so you might want to look at this later in the day..., which I highly recommend.


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Humanity’s future is glorious. As we master space travel, we’ll hop from one lifeless world to the next. Life will blossom in our path and the galaxy with shimmer with beautiful Earth-like orbs. Hmmm… maybe. This won’t sound so far fetched if we prove we can do it at least once. If we successfully terraform Mars.

Hosted by Matt O'Dowd
Written by Matt O'Dowd
Graphics by Murilo Lopes
Directed by: Andrew Kornhaber
Produced By: Kornhaber Brown

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We already have the technology to bring humans safely to Mars and set up small settlements - or at least could do within a generation. But those settlements will need to be cocooned - shielded against the deadly cold, intense radiation, and the fatal lack of atmospheric pressure. Surely if we want to thrive on Mars – to make it into our second home – these settlers, or their descendants, will need to be able open the airlocks, shed their spacesuits, and step out onto a survivable surface. We’ll need to terraform Mars, as our first step in terraforming the galaxy.