Warming a Tiny Piece of Mars For Terraforming

dptalia writes "It's been a dream of science fiction writers everywhere that we would eventually terraform Mars. Now an engineering student has proposed a way to terraform only a kilometer of Mars. By building an array of space based mirrors to focus the sun's light, a small area of Mars could be warmed to about 68 degrees Fahrenheit (20 degrees Celsius) which would make it easier for explorers to work and live there. Since Mars' atmosphere is thin, the mirrors would have to be carefully designed to prevent them from reflecting harmful radiation as well as light and warmth."

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Whoa

[American AC in Paris]

Now an engineering student has proposed a way to teraform only a kilometer of Mars.

...while technologically astounding, I fail to see the utility in being able to do this.

Now, if we're talking about a square kilometer of Mars, that'd be a different matter...