alt Hacker NewsNo, as terraforming means changing that.
Whether it is really possible, is a different question, but after you have an atmosphere, you could have engineered microorganism processing the soil etc.
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operatingthetan • yesterday at 7:59 PM
In that sense then the term "terraforming" is on equal footing with alchemy.
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Just exposing the Martian soil to water for some time is enough to destroy the perchlorates.
(Turns out there's a region in Antarctic with them too, so we can always test things there.)