How Can Plants and Insects Cope With Living on a Terraformed Mars?

If we humans are serious about terraforming our famous neighbor, Mars, then the terraforming process would take thousands of years before it becomes habitable enough for humans to live in. But that is only the beginning...

Turns out that there are many, many, MANY problems we should take into consideration while terraforming Mars, but for the sake of this question, let's narrow it down to one problem--its 687-day revolution. As I have discovered in this question, the longer a year is, the harder it will be for any Earth-based lifeforms to live in. So when Earth-based terraformers have a collection of pioneering species of plants (doesn't matter which--herb, shrub, vine, tree, vascular, nonvascular) and insects (their relationship with plants runs really deep), how will they, who are used to a 365-day year, adapt to live under Mars's longer year?

Oh, and before you bring up genetic engineering, don't. That would be cheating, and cheating is just plain lazy.

posted about 5 years ago

JohnWDailey‭

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