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The Terraforming Information pages, by Martyn Fogg. An exhaustive look at terraforming by one of the world's leading experts on terraforming. Highly recommended.
Alien Planet Designer These pages are on the borderline between hard Science Fiction and genuine science. In the hard SF tradition, everything here is scientifically rigorous, except when it is more fun to bend the rules. The pages have 3 aims: to help people understand the general physics of stellar and planetary systems; o help with those calculations; and to look how other people have prepared their alien worlds.
At The Case for Mars VI Website (July 1996) by Tom Meyer
- Biology and the Planetary Engineering of Mars by Julian A. Hiscox. The planetary engineering of Mars may be divided into two distinct mechanistic steps, ecopoiesis followed by terraforming. Ecopoiesis, a term derived by
Haynes (1990) which, when applied to Mars, can be viewed as the creation of a self-regulating anaerobic biosphere. On the other hand, terraforming refers to the creation of a human habitable climate .
- Terraforming Mars: A Review of Current Research modify barren planets elsewhere such that they can naturally support life.
Martyn J. Fogg (abstract)If humanity is to embark on the permanent settlement of space, consideration of long-term life-support is crucial. The only known life-support system with the
desired properties of sustainability and autonomy over the lengthy time scales at issue, is the biosphere of the Earth_or more generally that of a habitable
planet. It follows therefore that a long-range goal of space settlement might be to modify barren planets elsewhere such that they can naturally support life.
- Summary of Current Planetary Engineering Proposals by Robert Zubrin (abstract)
- Establishing Biospheres By David Thomas (abstract)
- Terraforming - an Ethical Perspective By Richard Miller (abstract)
- Planetary Engineering Bibliography (revised November 1995) by Martyn J. Fogg (Probability Research Group, UK), Tom Meyer (University of Colorado), Stephen Gillett (MacKay School of Mines, Nevada),
and Robert Haynes (York University, Ontario).
Terraforming Mars? , a short discussion of why one would want to terraform a world and some images to show what might happen on Mars.
Terraforming Research, Cosmic Information Center. NASDA. "There are two ways that Mars could be terraformed. One would be to increase the amount of sunrays absorbed into the planet, thus raising its temperature. The other way to terraform the planet would have sunrays absorbed by black, carbon objects on the surface."
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Bringing Life to Mars, March 1999 article by NASA scientist Chris McKay on terraforming Mars, Scientific American
How To Terraform Mars by Ed Reber. Personal thoughts on how to terraform Mars.
VistaPro - create your own terraformed Mars. Graphics created using a pre-Bryce software which show what a terraformed Mars might look like.
The Terraforming Debate - If There Isn't Life on Mars, Should We
Put Some There? By Walter Truett Anderson, Pacific News Service."Should we or should we not remodel the planets to make them more like Earth?"
"Terraforming", Earth&Sky, 1 November 1996. [RealAudio feed] "Imagine wading on a red sand beach on the shore of a martian ocean. Some scientists think that we can remake the planets, creating new homes for life from Earth. More on re-engineering planets -- after this on Earth & Sky."
Die Terraformung des Mars - Der Weg zu einer zweiten Erde, von Christoph Kulmann. "First heat your planet by at least 60°C. Then use sunlight to remove carbon dioxide. Wait 100,000 years and add humans. New Scientist, 1997"
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The Terraforming Art Galerry, Martyn Fogg. Contains a variety of illustrations depicting a terraformed Mars - and other engineered worlds.
"Earth Is a Planet, Too!", by Mitchell K. Hobish, Ad Astra magazine, January/February 1999. Contains a three frame illustration by Keith Cowing that depicts the transformation of a Earth-like world from abiotic to biotic in a short period of time.
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