Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) said it is possible to modify a planet’s atmosphere to make life happen. They are working on a terraforming technology to create the conditions needed for human to habituate.
Martian environment would be introduced to a large amount of organisms to make the surface suitable for humans living.
Alicia Jackson, the deputy director of Darpa’s Biological Technologies Office in Virginia said “For the first time, we have the technological toolkit to transform not just hostile places here on Earth, but to go into space not just to visit, but to stay.”
This “toolkit” will include hereditarily designing organic entities of different types, of which there are up to 30 billion on Earth. On Earth, most synthetic biology projects utilize only two right now - e. coli and yeast.
Jackson added “I want to use any organism that has properties I want - I want to quickly map it and quickly engineer it.”
A recently created software called DTA GView, named the 'Google Maps of genomes,' will help researchers associate data on organisms. In addition, the ultimate objective is to pick organisms with particular qualities to make something with certain features. For instance, it has been guessed that some could be bio-engineered to haul certain gasses out of the Martian environment - like carbon dioxide - and make nitrogen and oxygen. Both are bounteous in Earth's atmosphere - and would be required for any people planning to inhale on Mars without a spacesuit.
Nasa has toyed with the thought before; a year ago, they divulged the Mars Ecopoiesis Test Bed idea, which would make biological communities fit for supporting life within biodomes on Mars. But, Darpa's innovation would innovative liveable situations outside in the open air on the Martian surface.
From: http://bizlifes.net/space/915-darpa-is-attempting-to-turn-mars-into-earth-2-0.html
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