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Mars fungi could make red planet regolith fertile for crops
- May 25, 2026 at 11:54 AM
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You're on the fourth human mission to Mars, and you've been tasked with establishing the first self-sustaining food crop on a Martian settlement. You're nervous because you're using a new type of fungi called beneficial fungi, which you're told will help enhance the Martian regolith, enabling it to be used for growing crops.
Originally published at Phys.org