New on marsterraforming.substack.com: "A Million Fireflies in the Martian Sky? On Warming Mars Using Solar Sails", by Ari Essunfeld. Based on work by Ari Essunfeld, Yuji Takubo, and Casey Handmer. marsterraforming.substack.com/p/a-million-...

New on marsterraforming.substack.com: "A Million Fireflies in the Martian Sky? On Warming Mars Using Solar Sails", by Ari Essunfeld. Based on work by Ari Essunfeld, Yuji Takubo, and Casey Handmer. marsterraforming.substack.com/p/a-million-...

New paper alert! Madison Turner et al., "Early thinning, late persistence, diachronous boundaries, and a regional dichotomy in Mars' young sedimentary rocks", Communications Earth and Environment: (open access link) www.nature.com/articles/s43...

New paper alert! Madison Turner et al., "Early thinning, late persistence, diachronous boundaries, and a regional dichotomy in Mars' young sedimentary rocks", Communications Earth and Environment: (open access link) www.nature.com/articles/s43...

An Introduction to Mars Terraforming, 2025 Workshop Summary arxiv.org/abs/2510.07344

“If building space habitats is hard & machine technology is gradually developing more life-like capabilities, does this mean we humans might as well remain Earth-bound forever?” — @rdword.bsky.social #spacetravel #spaceexploration #rovers

An Introduction to Mars Terraforming, 2025 Workshop Summary arxiv.org/abs/2510.07344

Check out this U. of Chicago podcast with Edwin Kite offering insights on climate and life on Mars, the Mars Sample Return mission, a transformative scaled up version of Ingenuity that can fly hundreds of kilometers, and more! @edwinkite.bsky.social news.uchicago.edu/big-brains-p... 🧪🔭 #Mars

New paper alert! Brandon Park Coy et al., "The Role of Tectonic Luck in Long-Term Habitability of Abiotic Earth-like Planets" (accepted by PSJ): arxiv.org/abs/2507.23124

New paper: "Carbonate formation and fluctuating habitability on Mars", Nature, open access: rdcu.be/euuTb . Inspired by data from Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover

Terraforming session @agu.org 2025 Fall Meeting: P008 - Creating sustainable habitats and ecosystems beyond Earth To submit an abstract, please visit agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr...

Terraforming session @agu.org 2025 Fall Meeting: P008 - Creating sustainable habitats and ecosystems beyond Earth To submit an abstract, please visit agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr...

Today I and 11 other scientists describe in Nature Astronomy how recent breakthroughs in launch capabilities, climate, and synthetic biology demand a new assessment of the feasibility of terraforming Mars. www.erikadebenedictis.com/s/The-case-f...

Heads up: terraforming Mars isn’t just sci-fi, it’s a real possibility that’s possible with today’s technology. Mars could be green in MY lifetime. 🚀 🌼 What’s stopping us? We need a lot more real research into how to do it right. Don’t nuke Mars! 👇

Big thanks to @edwinkite.bsky.social whose talk on prospects for terraforming Mars filled our conference room and elicited lively discussion.

Another video vision of terraformed Mars through the lens of Casey Handmer's Google Mars overlay: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du7j...

A video vision of terraformed Mars through the lens of Casey Handmer's Google Mars overlay: www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1lf...

🧵1/3 New research by @climate.columbia.edu postdoc Kaitlyn Loftus, Yangcheng Luo, colleagues suggests extreme weather on exoplanet 55 Cancri e may be caused by lava cycle...like Earth’s water cycle, but with molten rock! Lava clouds form & decay in cycle that causes temps to swing by 2500°F in week.

It was fun to discuss Mars terraforming with @davidkipping.bsky.social ! Link: m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Dae...

🚨🚨New paper alert! "Atmospheric dynamics of first steps toward terraforming Mars", Richardson et al. 🚨🚨

We could — if we tried — potentially raise Mars's temperature by 30°C well within this century asteriskmag.com/issues/09/gr...

Feasibility of keeping Mars warm with nanoparticles

Check out 🏆A Biologist’s Guide to Mars Dirt, where we present a receipt for soluble Mars Regolith Media (sMRM) that best simulates what you’d get if you added water to Mars dirt. Will anything grow in this media? Stay tuned! 💧+ 🪨 → 🌱 ? open.substack.com/pub/pioneerl...

"Population-level Hypothesis Testing with Rocky Planet Emission Data: A Tentative Trend in the Brightness Temperatures of M-Earths" (Brandon Park Coy et al.) arxiv.org/abs/2412.06573

Feasibility of keeping Mars warm with nanoparticles