Red Mars

Mars is colonized. In 2027 the first 100 arrive. By 2060 a million is living there. It is heavily debated how much terraforming should be done.

Kim Stanley Robinson corrected a scientific error in the text of Red Mars after it was pointed out by a scientist at JPL. He describes the change in an interview in the October 8th-15th, 2005 issue of New Scientist magazine:
In one of my Mars books, I had some characters powering up batteries by sticking fans over the side of the blimp they were in, but the blimp, of course, would be moving at the same speed as the wind. This was pointed out to me by Donna Shirley, head of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Mars Sojourner program, the little rover back in 1997. It was lovely because she's such an engineer. And yet in the same breath she showed me a way I could fix it that would be particularly cool in fictional terms - she told me that my characters should put out solar panels to re-power their batteries and could point them both up and down, because in the dust storm they were in, there would be so much reflected light coming off below that you could gather extra light from underneath.
This change occurs in the Bantam mass market paperback edition on pages 196 and 197, somewhere between the 17th and the 20th printings (hence in the range 1997-1999).

Year	Award	Category	Status
1992	British Science Fiction Award	Best Novel	Winner
1992	James Tiptree, Jr. Award / Otherwise Award	Gender-bending SF	Nominee/Finalist
1993	Arthur C. Clarke Award	Best Science Fiction Novel	Runner-up
1993	Hugo Award	Best Novel	Nominee/Finalist
1993	Locus Poll Award	Best SF Novel	Runner-up
1993	SF Chronicle Award	Novel	Nominee/Finalist
1994	Nebula Award	Novel	Winner
2012	Locus Online	20th Century Science Fiction Novel	Nominee/Finalist