"Turning into Venus?"
Fang Xu repeated the words in a low voice.
Before Lü Yongchang could speak, He Bilin stepped forward and took over. "Yes."
"At present, Kepler-452b is suffering from a fairly severe greenhouse effect."
"According to the data returned by the probes, this planet had vast oceans five hundred million years ago."
"As the greenhouse effect spiraled out of control, the planet's surface temperature rose rapidly. Its oceans gradually boiled dry, and the water was gradually stripped away by stellar winds."
"But because of its enormous mass and relatively strong gravity, some small lakes remain on its surface even today."
Fang Xu understood. "So, overall, the first priority of the planetary terraforming plan is to address its runaway greenhouse effect?"
He Bilin nodded gently. "You could put it that way."
Lü Yongchang also turned to look at an academician seated in a corner of the Command Center.
With a warm smile, he called softly, "Academician Shen, this is your field."
Hearing Lü Yongchang call him, Shen Siwen hurriedly rose from his seat.
A faint gleam of excitement shone in his eyes, and he answered with considerable intensity, "Professor, I'm here!"
It was hardly surprising that he reacted so strongly.
Academician Shen Siwen, who researched biosphere technology and Planetary Terraforming Technology, rarely attracted much attention.
As for the reason...
Apart from its time on Dawn Star, the fleet had always been either fleeing for its life or extracting resources. It simply had neither the time nor the conditions to terraform habitable planets.
Planetary Terraforming Technology, meanwhile, was a field that operated on an immense, planetary scale.
At the same time, the computing resources allocated to him were insufficient to simulate the detailed changes a planet would undergo during terraforming.
For Shen Siwen, it had been a long time since