Terraforming: The Creating of Habitable Worlds

by Martin Beech

Book Overview

The word ''terraforming'' conjures up many exotic images and p- hapsevenwildemotions, butatitscoreitencapsulatestheideathat worldscanbechangedbydirecthumanaction.Theultimateaimof terraforming is to alter a hostile planetary environment into one that is Earth-like, and eventually upon the surface of the new and vibrant world that you or I could walk freely about and explore. It is not entirely clear that this high goal of terraforming can ever be achieved,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1493939149
• ISBN13: 9781493939145
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 291 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"