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Originally Posted by David Johnston2
Not especially. The rock around will soak up the heat. It's just going to be obvious on Mars where the epicenter of the heat bloom is.
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Of course, with good heat pumps and enough heat pipes spreading out in the right direction it is be possible to move the center of the heat away from where the base is actually located. The farther away you move it the more it'll cost in time, resources, and thus money, but you can certainly move it away from the base.
What you won't be able to do is cover up the heat signature; you can move it, you can spread it out, but you can't hide it. And, of course, what do you do with all your excess heat if they find your underground heatpipe network and disable it?