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Green Plants for Mars Mission

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the algae-again-tonight-eh-hal dept.

An anonymous reader writes "NASA doesn't keep back that they are going to send a human expedition to Mars in a couple of decades. One of the obstacles for the longstanding 35-million-mile voyage is a food production. NASA researchers have focused on 20 plant species that NASA believes could be grown during a flight to Mars and after landing on the fourth planet from the Sun. By far not all of them are suitable for space expedition."

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  1. Mission: Innocuation by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    So when we arrive on Mars, we'll bring a complex enough ecosystem that we'll infect the planet with the disease now erupting from Earth: us. If Earth is Gaia, we're her virus. How many planets makes an epidemic?

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