The excellent Casey Handmer covers some of the new facts that have come to light since this paper was written. > Last week, a Nature paper (https://www.nature.

The excellent Casey Handmer covers some of the new facts that have come to light since this paper was written. > Last week, a Nature paper (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-018-0529-6 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-018-0529-6) was published by Jakosky and Edwards arguing that, based on data from more recent orbiters, the total near-surface reserves of CO2 are much too low to built up the atmosphere enough for terraforming. What a bummer! http://caseyexaustralia.blogspot.com/2018/08/atmospheres-and-terraforming_5.html http://caseyexaustralia.blogspot.com/2018/08/atmospheres-and... He describes some of the back-and-forth dispute, but ultimately comes down pretty pessamistic on Mars terraforming.