If you were stranded on Mars, could you pull a Mark Watney from the movie The Martian and grow your food Thanks to a new garden kit that mimics the soil conditions on the Red Planet, you can find. determine just what makes up the dirt on Earth’s next-door neighbor and to find equivalents here on the ground.
Despite the fact that NASA operates multiple missions on and around Mars so far none have ever come back, which means we’ve never brought back any soil samples. So to figure out just what’s on the ground orbiters have used remote sensing to record surface compositions across the entire planet, and robotic explorers analyze samples with a variety of tools and techniques.
Martian Garden kits stocked with Mars Mojave Simulant complete with a desktop greenhouse, seeds and fertilizer a necessity because the company bakes the soil in an autoclave so its as dead as we can make it,” to better mimic Mars dirt, explains co-founder Mark Cusimano.
The explanation for mars being red color is that its regolith, or surface material, contains lots of iron oxide the same compound that gives blood and rust their hue. But why does Mars have so much iron, why is that iron oxidized. That is why mars is red