A student wants to farm on Mars like in “The Martian”, but using alfalfa as a secret ingredient instead of excrement
Farm on Mars using alfalfa plants and photosynthetic bacteria to make the red planet’s soil and water suitable enough to support agriculture. That is the proposal of Pooja Kasiviswanatha, who during her second year of high school at Ames High in Iowa, began to develop a project, which was published in PLOS ONE magazinewith the …