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The goal, according to NASA's Chris McKay and U of M's Rafael Navarro-Gonzalez, is to use trees as "the engines of the biosphere" to pump "powerful gases," with the goal of bringing human-caused global warming to the cold and thin atmosphere of the Red Planet.
NASA says there's no word from the Phoenix lander that is presumed to be frozen near the Martian north pole.
Thu, Jan 21 | from MSNBC