Terraforming Mars Could Be Easier Than Scientists Thought
8th October 2025
One of the classic tropes of science fiction is terraforming Mars: warming up our cold neighbor so it could support human civilization. The idea might not be so far-fetched, research published today in Science Advances suggests.
Injecting tiny particles into Mars’s atmosphere could warm the planet by more than 10°C in a matter of months, researchers find—enough to sustain liquid water. Although the scheme would require about 2 million tons of particles per year, they could be manufactured from readily available ingredients found in martian dust.
“It’s not that often you get some really quite new, innovative idea for terraforming,” says Colin McInnes, a space engineer at the University of Glasgow not involved with the work. “The gap between where Mars is and where Mars could be for habitability is narrower than we might think.”
October 9th, 2025 at 06:06
Great thought exercise, but wholly irrelevant! We cannot get there, the radiation on the way would kill us, if we didn’t die of old age! This very thought process (that you’re smarter than God and can change an entire planets atmosphere based on a simplistic idea of merely ‘injecting’ the right ‘stuff’ into the infinite complexity of the atmosphere (or lack thereof) on a foreign planet!?)
This is why we can’t have nice things. People like this are allowed to run around unsupervised. If you cannot understand why it’s a bad idea to mess with a planets atmosphere, whether we live on that planet or not, I simply cannot explain it to you. You’re not smart enough to grasp the topic, nevermind the scientific knowledge required to even put a dent in discussing the topic.