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Vegetables grown on Mars using ancient technology

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The entire crop was grown on simulated Martian regolith. This soil was developed by NASA, it has no nutrients and is similar to real Martian soil.

Scientists have obtained a larger harvest of vegetables on Mars using an ancient method of cultivation – Mayan technology. Reuters writes about it.

This method was found in the greenhouses of Wageningen University and research centers in the Netherlands. This could increase crop yields on Martian soil.

“In practice, a method was used that involves planting different crops, it is called mutual combination of crops. As a result, tomatoes gave almost twice a higher yield than those control tomatoes grown in separate pots, growing together with other plants, the tomatoes flowered and ripened earlier, and also produced thicker stems,” the researchers said.

However, there was no increase in the yield of peas and carrots when grown together.

“Since this was a pioneering study, we didn’t really know what to expect. The fact that the method worked in one of the three plants was a big discovery on which to build further research,” added astrobiologist Rebecca Gonsalves.

Recall that a team of researchers has developed a plasma approach to producing oxygen on Mars.

Scientists have figured out how to grow vegetables on Mars
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