Terraforming of Mars, Wikipedia

The place had clearly been terraformed within an inch of its life; there was just no other way continents ended up perfectly square.
Rachel Bach, Heaven's Queen

This will be the first of a thousand worlds that we will give life to. For we are gods, and we are lonely, so we shall create.
Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Time

… they beheld its atlas‐familiar snowy poles, its blue land‐locked seas, its green forests and yellow plains and wide red deserts. They looked down upon Mount Olympus, so tall her summit rose about the highest snow, and the bustling lands of the Grand Valley, thick with cities and towns. As their earth loomed closer, they saw the glittering moonring and here the oracle‐eye rested, filling the room with incomprehensible drifting shapes. Some were so huge they took minutes to cross the room, some were tiny and tumbling, some were busy as insects, flitting through the spectators intent upon their small errands; all of them bore the name ROTECH somewhere upon them.
Ian McDonald, Desolation Road

Yellowstone, Composed by Brian Tyler

Stairway to Heaven, Lexington Lab Band