Terraforming

Terraforming is the alteration of a planet to suit humans. Many attempts have been made to terraform Mars, including the Ares Project, but all have met with very limited success.
One of the first attempts involved a plant that took in the carbon-dioxide-thickened air and output oxygen. Called the white weed, the stuff managed to take in plenty of carbon dioxide and grow over massive swatches of the planet, but it put out little oxygen, only a half of a percent of what was expected.
After the thickened air, snow machines were erected on the surface in 2218. They managed to create dirty patches of snow but put out ten times more smoke than water, and polluted Mars with only negative effects.
The PRA played a small role in resistance against some of the more deleterious terraforming experiments.
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