Tomatoes and radishes from Mars? Coming soon on your shelves!
Amazing news come from little Holland. Scientists are just developing a project for a future flight to the red planet, and Dutch scientists are seriously deciding where to plant tomatoes, radishes and peas on Mars.
And they found a place on Mars where someday Dutch tulips can bloom - the Ares Valley. In terms of the ratio of loose soil and ice reserves, this place seemed optimal to the Dutch. They also had to take into account the content of calcium and heavy metals in the soil, as well as potassium, iron and silicon, so that the vegetation grown on the beds was not poisoned by heavy metals. Ares Valley met the required characteristics of the gentleness of the area, low radioactivity and relatively high temperature.
In their work, the Dutch used materials from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Arizona State University. After that, they conducted a series of successful experiments on growing plants needed by future Mars colonists in soil, similar in Martian characteristics. A colony of worms was also settled in such soil, which began to multiply safely.
The success of Dutch scientists gives reason to believe that someday it will be true that an autonomous settlement will be created on the red planet, and Martian tulips will stretch out to the starry sky under the roofs of greenhouses.
And they found a place on Mars where someday Dutch tulips can bloom - the Ares Valley. In terms of the ratio of loose soil and ice reserves, this place seemed optimal to the Dutch. They also had to take into account the content of calcium and heavy metals in the soil, as well as potassium, iron and silicon, so that the vegetation grown on the beds was not poisoned by heavy metals. Ares Valley met the required characteristics of the gentleness of the area, low radioactivity and relatively high temperature.
In their work, the Dutch used materials from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Arizona State University. After that, they conducted a series of successful experiments on growing plants needed by future Mars colonists in soil, similar in Martian characteristics. A colony of worms was also settled in such soil, which began to multiply safely.
The success of Dutch scientists gives reason to believe that someday it will be true that an autonomous settlement will be created on the red planet, and Martian tulips will stretch out to the starry sky under the roofs of greenhouses.
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