Farming on Mars?
- added June 27, 2008
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- clemwilson
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NASA scientists are saying that Martian soil is good enough to grow asparagus!
"The soil you have there is the type of soil you have in your backyard," said Kounaves. "You may be able to grow asparagus very well." said Samuel Kounaves, the project's lead chemist at the University of Arizona.
"We basically have found what appears to be the requirements of the nutrients to support life, past, present or future," said Kounaves.
Scientists found elements in the soil that included magnesium, potassium and sodium.
"The soil you have there is the type of soil you have in your backyard," said Kounaves. "You may be able to grow asparagus very well." said Samuel Kounaves, the project's lead chemist at the University of Arizona.
"We basically have found what appears to be the requirements of the nutrients to support life, past, present or future," said Kounaves.
Scientists found elements in the soil that included magnesium, potassium and sodium.
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- clemwilson
- 2 months ago
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Thats it, Im bringing my bbq and grilling up some mars asparagus.
Goodbye earth. -
The soil is fine...but you can't grow it anyways, because of other factors, according to little Mars Phoenix's twittering.
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- PoisonTheMonkey
- 2 months ago
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OK food can be grown on Mars the problem is it may prove costly visiting the market stalls on Mars.
Anyway I am not keen on asparagus so I will give this one a miss.
Although I do like fresh pineapple-
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- themanwithadog
- 2 months ago
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This is such good news. I wonder what the inter-planetary tax would be like to import mars asparagus......yummy!
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- alexemanuele
- 2 months ago
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Very cool.
You think maybe there's oil under that soil?
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