The Furies' Bog - Mars Excerpt

Mars. Could there be any bleaker destination? Any vaster, emptier world where only the savage wind blows? Canyons and craters filled with dust. Pebbled, marbled lifeless terrain draped with dust. Rust-colored dust that peppers the horizon. Blazing dust. Boring dust. Soul-sucking dust. How does one alter this cold, lifeless planet into a habitable Eden? Hurl water at it? Bombard it? Release stored energy and greenhouse gas components to blanket the atmosphere and restart a dead engine? [image error]