How to Revive an Old, Cold Planet

By Kathy A Svitil
Feb 1, 2001 6:00 AMNov 12, 2019 4:24 AM

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Images from the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft strongly suggest the Red Planet was once balmy and inviting— and they are stoking the imaginations of scientists who dream of making it so again. Margarita Marinova, an aerospace engineering graduate student at MIT, has even worked out some key details of how to transform Mars into a habitable world.

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