Plant life on Mars Researchers at the Wageningen University in the Netherlands are growing plants in soil which has the same composition as soil found on Mars and on the Moon. The team has planted 14 different species of plants in pots filled with soil provided by researchers at NASA, who used a mixture of elements that exist on Earth. Most of the Mars composite soil comes from a volcanic area on Hawaii – and is almost identical to samples brought from Mars by Viking 1.
Posted on: Sun, 06 Oct 2013 07:24:03 +0000
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