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Mars, the Red Planet, is a desolate world, and it is completely unsuited to human habitation at the present time (see Figure 6.1). Yet, while incapable of sustaining human life, it is a planet that has provided humanity with a rich and fertile muse for the imagination.
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Beech, M. (2009). The Terraforming of Mars. In: Terraforming. Astronomers' Universe. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09796-1_6
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