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So beautiful and peaceful; there is something magical about this picture -- a planet that human feet never touched. No human installations, no radio haves (other than from this rover) running, clean.

I wonder if it would be possible to GMO-engineer some sort of plants that could survive and grow/evolve in Martian atmosphere. Would be amazing to see the result -- humans brought life to Mars and it evolved on its own. We definitely should try!!



Flip through the second book in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy, Green Mars; he examines in detail what such plant life would be like.




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