How to grow crops on Mars if we are to live on the red planet
- Written by Briardo Llorente, CSIRO Synthetic Biology Future Science Fellow, Macquarie University
We can create the right kind of food plants to survive on Mars.Shutterstock/SergeyDV
Preparations are already underway for missions that will land humans on Mars in a decade or so. But what would people eat if these missions eventually lead to the permanent colonisation of the red planet?
Once (if) humans do make it to Mars, a major challenge for...
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