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terraforming
Sign in to saveAlso known as terraformation, Earth-shaping, ecopoiesis
thumb|An artist's conception shows a terraformed Mars in four stages of development.
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- Instance of
- hypothetical technology
- Subclass of
- planetary engineering
- Image
- MarsTransitionV.jpg
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- Terraforming
- topic's main category
- Category:Terraforming
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- worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/tags/terraforming
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Encyclopedic overview
28 sectionsContents
- Concept
- History of scholarly study
- Aspects and definitions
- Habitability requirements
- Temperature
- Water
- Energy
- Elements
- Preliminary stages
- Prospective targets
- Mars
- Venus
- Moon
- Mercury
- Earth
- Other bodies in the Solar System
- Other possibilities
- Biological terraforming
- Paraterraforming
- Adapting humans
- Issues
- Ethical issues
- Economic issues
- In popular culture
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
thumb|An artist's conception shows a terraformed Mars in four stages of development.
Terraforming or terraformation ("Earth-shaping") is the hypothetical process of deliberately modifying the atmosphere, temperature, surface topography or ecology of a planet, moon, or other body to be similar to the environment of Earth, with the goal of making it habitable for humans.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “terraforming” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.