SpaceRef - Future Technology

SpaceRef - Future Technology - Terraforming

Alien Planet Designer - The pages have 3 aims: to help people understand the general physics of stellar and planetary systems, o help with those calculations, and to look how other people have prepared their alien worlds.

Biology and the Planetary Engineering of Mars - Written by Julian A. Hiscox. The planetary engineering of Mars may be divided into two distinct mechanistic steps, ecopoiesis followed by terraforming. Ecopoiesis, a term derived by Haynes (1990) which, when applied to Mars, can be viewed as the creation of a self-regulating anaerobic biosphere. On the other hand, terraforming refers to the creation of a human habitable climate .

Bringing Life to Mars - March 1999 article by NASA scientist Chris McKay on terraforming Mars - Scientific American

Darian Defrost Calendar - An interesting prediction of what a terraformed Mars might be like based upon a calendar designed specifically for Mars.

Earth Is a Planet, Too! - An article by Mitchell K. Hobish, published in Ad Astra magazine, January/February 1999. Contains a three frame illustration by Keith Cowing that depicts the transformation of a Earth-like world from abiotic to biotic in a short period of time.

How To Terraform Mars - Written by Ed Reber. Personal thoughts on how to terraform Mars.

Terraforming - Imagine wading on a red sand beach on the shore of a Martian ocean. Some scientists think that we can remake the planets, creating new homes for life from Earth. More on re-engineering planets. Earth&Sky, 1 November 1996. [RealAudio feed] .

Terraforming Mars? - A short discussion of why one would want to terraform a world and some images to show what might happen on Mars.

Terraforming Research - Cosmic Information Center. NASDA. "There are two ways that Mars could be terraformed. One would be to increase the amount of sunrays absorbed into the planet, thus raising its temperature. The other way to terraform the planet would have sunrays absorbed by black, carbon objects on the surface."

The Terraforming Art Gallery - Website by Martyn Fogg. Contains a variety of illustrations depicting a terraformed Mars - and other engineered worlds.

The Terraforming Debate - If There Isn't Life on Mars, Should We Put Some There? - "Should we or should we not remodel the planets to make them more like Earth?" an article by Walter Truett Anderso, Pacific News Service.

The Terraforming Information pages - Created by Martyn Fogg. An exhaustive look at terraforming by one of the world's leading experts on terraforming. Highly recommended.

VistaPro - Create your own terraformed Mars. Graphics created using a pre-Bryce software which show what a terraformed Mars might look like.