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- verb Present participle of
terraform . - noun terraforming (literally, "Earth-shaping") of a
planet ,moon , or other body is thehypothetical process ofdeliberately modifying itsatmosphere ,temperature ,surface topography orecology to besimilar to those ofEarth to make ithabitable byhumans .
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