Before Mars could become self-sufficient, however, massive amounts of imported food would be needed in the interim, according to the authors of a 2019 paper published in the New Journal discussing ...
Trips to Mars will take so long that they won’t be able to pack enough food to sustain themselves — they’ll have to grow their own. But how do we grow food on another planet? Scientists ...
Then, they narrowed down the species that thrived in conditions that resembled Martian conditions. Lastly, they surveyed the sites for the availability of molecular hydrogen, which is the primary food ...