What would it take to terraform Mars? Erika DeBenedictis has ideas
The CEO of Pioneer Labs, a biotech startup developing Mars-adapted microbes, is on a quest to make alien worlds nice places to live
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What if we could turn the Red Planet green?
The idea of Mars made verdant with grasses, trees and other Earthly life-forms may sound like science fiction, but at least one small group of scientists and engineers is working to make it a reality. Pioneer Labs , a nonprofit research organization led by CEO Erika DeBenedictis, recently announced what it calls “ the first microbe for Mars ”: a microorganism adapted to Martian conditions that might someday help humans survive there, too.
