An Introduction to Mars Terraforming, 2025 Workshop Summary
2025/10/07 by Devon Stork, Stork, Devon, Erika DeBenedictis +1 · 8 voices
Physics and Astronomy · #astro-ph.IM #astro-ph.EP #physics.geo-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2510.07344
Abstract
Terraforming Mars is an age old science fiction concept now worth revisiting through the lens of modern science and technology. This document serves as a summary of contemporary ideas about Mars terraforming, prepared for attendees of the 2025 Green Mars Workshop. It presents one illustrative story of how Mars might be transformed into a habitable world. The story is told in reverse, beginning with possible planetary endpoints and tracing backward to the steps required to reach them. Along the way, it highlights alternative approaches, critical unknowns and research priorities, and the near term applications and benefits of terraforming research for planetary science, climate engineering, and sustainable technologies on Earth.
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- An Introduction to Mars Terraforming, 2025 Workshop Summary arxiv.org/abs/2510.07344 [bsky, 11 points, 0 comments]
- An Introduction to Mars Terraforming, 2025 Workshop Summary [hn, 5 points, 0 comments]
- #arXiv An Introduction to Mars Terraforming, 2025 Workshop Summary arxiv.org/abs/2510.07344 The story is told in reverse, beginning with possible planetary endpoints and tracing backward to the steps [bsky, 3 points, 1 comments]
- Linked below is the 20MB, 11pg document Introduction to Mars Terraforming. This document is a summary of some ideas about Mars terraforming, prepared for attendees of the 2025 Green Mars Workshop. My [bsky, 1 points, 1 comments]
- # arXiv An Introduction to Mars Terraforming, 2025 Workshop Summary https:// arxiv.org/abs/2510.07344 The story is told in reverse, beginning with possible planetary endpoints and tracing backward to [mastodon, 0 points, 0 comments]
- #astro-ph.IM #astro-ph.EP #physics.geo-ph Origin | Interest | Match [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]
- #arXiv An Introduction to Mars Terraforming, 2025 Workshop Summary https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07344 The story is told in reverse, beginning with possible planetary endpoints and tracing backward to th [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]
- The recent sketch for Mars terraforming is a mild approach not trying to force it to become Earth-like, despite the assumed speed. arxiv.org/abs/2510.07344 [bsky, 0 points, 1 comments]
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