![]() ![]() ![]() To accommodate for the power consumption NASA’s plans would be to create a greenhouse that is pressurized at only 10% of Earth’s pressure. NASA has been researching optimization of LED lights to supplement plants’ needs but that type of light would also require an adequate amount of power. Growing plants in a pressurized environment creates problems when it comes to sunlight as the enclosure would further block the already reduced sunlight that Mars receives (about half the sunlight of Earth). The solution to this would be to create a pressurized greenhouse like they did in “The Martian” but then comes the second problem which is lighting. On the International Space Station they have discovered that plants can grow in very weak gravity known as microgravity but the gravity on Mars is only 37.5% as powerful as the gravity on Earth. While he simplifies the process by hauling in some Martian soil and fertilizing with human fecal matter, it raises the question of whether or not this process would work.Īccording to NASA the solution is a bit more complex than conveyed in “The Martian.” In the research done thus far NASA’s main concerns are gravity and adequate lighting. Mark Watney determines that he has to master agriculture by growing food on Mars, a planet where seemingly nothing grows. ![]()
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