Greening the Red Planet
Greenhouse gases might one day be used to warm the cold surface of Mars, and make the planet habitable for humans.

Roses for the Red Planet
At a conference on terraforming Mars, one topic of discussion was the importance - and the risks - of seeding the Red Planet.

Build Your Own Planet
Build your own virtual planet, complete with weather, habitable tropics and a tunable thermostat. In reality, changing an entire biosphere would dwarf the limits of engineers' most grand projects: Hoover Dam, Suez and Panama Canals, or hurricane cloud-seeding. Beyond the challenges of weather modification, the introduction of biology onto a barren world may rely on a worldview hardly developed- one difficult to test before turning loose some pioneer organisms.

Growing Glowing Martian Mustard
A team of University of Florida scientists has genetically modified a tiny plant to send reports back from Mars in a most unworldly way: by emitting an eerie, fluorescent glow.

Genesis Project
The daily terraforming experiments sponsored by the Astrobiology Magazine feature a comparative glimpse into what is the science fiction of seeding a planet's biological development.

The Greening of the Red Planet
A hardy microbe from Earth may one day transform the barren ground of Mars into arable soil.

Thawing Mars
Greenhouse gases might one day be used to warm the cold surface of Mars, and make the planet habitable for humans.