"Greening the Red Planet: Selecting Plants for Mars Colonization"

TL;DR
PhD researcher Christopher Ray suggests that a plant capable of withstanding drought conditions may be the best option for space travel, as his work studying plants' reactions to drought has connected him with NASA scientists exploring how plants fare in space.
Topics:sciencescience-and-technology#drought#nasa#plant-cultivation#plants#science-and-technology#space-exploration
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