Should We Terraform Mars

Terraform

• Transform (a planet) so as to resemble the earth, especially so that it can support human life.

• The process or industry of obtaining coal or other minerals from a mine.

• Discover (something hidden, lost, or kept secret) by investigation or searching.

• A celestial body distinguished from the fixed stars by having an apparent motion of its own (including the moon and sun), especially with reference to its supposed influence on people and events.

Inhabitable

• An area of land under the jurisdiction of a ruler or state.

• Divide into or assign to zones.

• Concerning the topography of a specific region.

• Suitable to live in.

Inevitability

• Find or come across by chance.

• The quality of being certain to happen.

• An event or occurrence.

• Ensue as an effect or result of an action or event.

Colonies

• A person born in a specified place or associated with a place by birth, whether subsequently resident there or not.

• A particular section, group, or type of people or animals living in an area or country.

• An inhabitant of a particular town or city.

• A country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.

Indigenous

• Archaic humans who lived in Eurasia until about 40,000 years ago.

• A human being, especially a person as distinguished from an animal or (in science fiction) an alien.

• Originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native.

• An establishment providing accommodations, food, and drink, especially for travelers.

Biosphere

• The regions of the surface, atmosphere, and hydrosphere of the earth (or analogous parts of other planets) occupied by living organisms.

• All the waters on the earth's surface, such as lakes and seas, and sometimes including water over the earth's surface, such as clouds.

• The rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.

• Layers of gases surrounding a planet or other celestial body. Earth's atmosphere is composed of about 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, and one percent other gases.

Contamination

• Use or expend carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose.

• Material that is not wanted; the unusable remains or byproducts of something.

• The action or state of making or being made impure by polluting or poisoning.

• A large area of barren, typically uninhabited land.

Figurative

• Characteristic of a region or climate that is frost-free with temperatures high enough to support year-round plant growth given sufficient moisture.

• Located at the equator or an equator.

• Expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another with which it may be regarded as analogous : METAPHORICAL.

• Having the characteristics of an axis.

Pristine

• Pre-owned goods.

• Not damaged or marked in any way.

• With everything included, and nothing missing or absent

  Finished, having reached an end or conclusion.

• In its original condition.

Prudent

• Readily perceived; appreciable.

• Acting with or showing care and thought for the future.

• Sensible and realistic in their approach to a situation or problem.

• The state of being useful, profitable, or beneficial.