Tuesday, June 30, 2026
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A self-sufficient Mars garden? How cyanobacteria-based fertilizer could grow edible biomass

A research team from the Center for Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM), the Department of Environmental Process Engineering (UVT) at the University of Bremen and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) has made significant progress toward a self-sufficient Mars mission: a fertilizer, which c...

A self-sufficient Mars garden? How cyanobacteria-based fertilizer could grow edible biomass
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A research team from the Center for Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM), the Department of Environmental Process Engineering (UVT) at the University of Bremen and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) has made significant progress toward a self-sufficient Mars mission: a fertilizer, which can be produced solely with Martian resources, has been successfully used to grow edible biomass.

Originally published at Phys.org

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