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  1. We can consider three possible responses to the discovery of indigenous life on #Mars 🔴

    • Leave it alone
    • Alter Mars to enhance the chances of that biota to become a global scale biology
    • Collect samples for laboratory preservation, then replace or augment it with #terrestrial life forms

    It is very unlikely that we would drive to extinction any native #Martian #microorganisms 🦠 by extending the habitability of Mars
    #RobertZubrin 2002
    marspapers.org/paper/McKay_200

    #Terraforming #Mars

  2. It may be feasible to fabricate tiny reflective #nanorods from iron and aluminum found in the #Martian soil and launch them into the #atmosphere. “The interaction of those particles with the incoming sunlight ☀️ would then cause that solar energy to be preferentially forward scattered to the surface. That would then cause a very strong #greenhouse effect, and we can warm it up several tens of degrees.” 🌡️ ucf.edu/news/ucf-planetary-sci

    #Mars #Terraforming #UCF

  3. Scientists have speculated about the possibility of introducing #Chroococcidiopsis 🦠 to the #Martian 🔴 environment to aid in the formation of an aerobic environment. In addition to #oxygen production, Chroococcidiopsis could aid in the formation of #soil on the Martian surface en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chroococ

    #Mars #terraforming