How to Terraform Mars — Erika DeBenedictis of Pioneer Labs

Pioneer Labs, a nonprofit research group in California, revealed today that they’ve engineered a “first” microbe that is able to live on Mars, using only nutrients found on the planet, and create building materials. They are saying this is the first ‘pioneer’ species needed to terraform the planet.During my interview with CEO Erika DeBenedictis, I asked about the myriad bottlenecks to growing life on Mars. The planet has tons of water, for example, but only as ice. (So much water, in fact, that ...