How to grow algae on Mars

[Otherbrother]

@killick

Kim Stanley Robinson describes a plan like this in his novel “Red Mars.”

The awful 2000 movie Red Planet as well:

In 2056 A.D., Earth is in ecological crisis as a consequence of pollution and overpopulation. Automated interplanetary missions have been seeding Mars with atmosphere-producing algae as the first stage of terraforming the planet. When the oxygen quantity produced by the algae is inexplicably reduced, the crew of Mars-1 investigate—

Unfortunately a bunch of previously unknown space bugs ate all the algae. Plus the crew’s helper robot defaulted to “evil” mode when it got hit on the head in a rough landing, as robots are prone to do.