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Nov 27, 2018 · Culture. Entertainment. When we go to Mars, here's what we might eat on the way. A mission to Mars may be a way off, but scientists are already cooking up the menu. Mike Sorrentino. Nov. 27,...
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Feb 10, 2016 · (Inside Science) -- NASA aims to one day land astronauts on Mars. However, even after more than 50 years of human spaceflight, much remains uncertain about what such explorers are going to eat on the long voyages to other planets, a new report underscores.
Nov 21, 2014 · Photo courtesy of NASA. Some of the foods astronauts eat are dehydrated, to save on space and weight. These foods typically come in snippable packages, so water generated by shuttle fuel cells can be added. Other foods, like fruits, fish and meat, are thermostabilized or irradiated to kill micro-organisms and enzymes.
Jul 18, 2012 · What's on the menu for a mission to Mars? Nasa scientists are designing menus to keep hungry astronauts fed on the planned missions to the Red Planet.
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Could we feed a city on Mars? This question is central to the future of space exploration and has serious repercussions on Earth, too. To date, a lot of thought has gone into how astronauts eat. However, we are only beginning to produce food in space. Space launches are quite expensive. And with the growing desire to establish a human presence in s...
The basis of food systems on Mars would involve water harvested from the soil. (Rovers have shown that there are small but significant amounts of frozen water in the crust.) It would also involve cyanobacteria, often referred to as blue-green algae. On earth, cyanobacteria can be a big problem. Here, it grows in polluted waterways causing eutrophic...
Once bacteria are happily growing away under a Martian sky, they will provide nutrients needed to support luxurious crops of plants. A Martian city could be imagined as a lush green place, with hydroponics and soil-bound crops filling tunnels, carpeting domed craters and growing away in every unused corner. Advanced greenhouse technologies — like v...
Animal agriculture is notoriously inefficient. On Earth, billions of domestic animalsthreaten natural biodiversity, contribute to climate change and suffer from needless animal cruelty. Animal-based systems will not be viable on Mars. However, people could produce abundant protein through cellular agriculture and precision fermentation. Precision f...
Imagining what agriculture could be like on Mars is a fascinating project. But it’s when we think about how these technologies may affect life on Earth that this topic becomes extremely serious. This is because on Mars – where each gram of organic matter, milliliter of water and photon of solar energy is scarce – there can be no inefficiencies. The...
May 20, 2022 · Learn what she thinks about the future of growing food beyond our planet, including on Mars. Jim Green:For humans to live, we need food. So how are we going to survive when we begin to live and work in faraway places in space?
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Sep 26, 2019 · In the article, called “Feeding One Million People on Mars ,” researchers from the University of Central Florida consider what it would take to make a self-sufficient food system that would be able to feed a Martian colony of one million.
