[Interview] 3 Key Technologies to Start Terraforming Mars in Our Lifetime

Terraforming Mars is usually considered in the realm of science fiction. But actually we have technology to start doing it in our lifetime and achieve some meaningful results it a timescale of tens of years, not thousands. What are they? Finding out in this interview. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🟣 Guest: Dr. Erika Alden DeBenedictis https://www.erikadebenedictis.com/ 📜 The Case for Mars Terraforming Research https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02548-0 00:00 Intro 01:34 Why Mars sucks 02:23 Old ideas to terraform Mars 11:00 New technologies 31:52 Timescales 37:00 Ethical consequences 46:39 Current obsessions 53:39 Final thoughts 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/tpFFKCF4-BA 📰 GUIDE TO SPACE Newsletter No ads. Subscribe for FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)