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The pedantic term would be "areothermal". I hate the practice of replacing "geo" in every word when used with other planets, though.

• jvanderbot 3y ago
  Areo for Ares, god of war, for those wondering. Mars is the romanized version of Ares, IIRC
• alanbernstein 3y ago
  Why is that? They're similar conceptually but very different environments, so the distinction seems reasonable. If there were companies building geothermal equipment for Mars, it would likely have quite different requirements versus earth, right?
  • causi 3y ago
    Do we need to change the "hydro" part of "hydraulic" when using fluids that aren't water? It's pedantry.
• Karellen 3y ago
  Well, we could use the prefix "astro-" for generic celestial objects, including planets. So you could go with "astrothermal". And then the study of those objects, cf. geology, would be.... no, wait. (Is there a generic prefix for just planetary bodies that we should be using? If so, what is it? If not, why not?)
  • itishappy 3y ago
    Lithothermal?
    • yetanotherloser 3y ago
      I like that. A nice generalisation.
    • Karellen 3y ago
      That would make the study of land masses and arrangement... lithography. :-/