{"id":128463,"date":"2021-10-02T20:22:49","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T03:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/this-could-be-the-plant-that-sustains-early-mars-colonies"},"modified":"2021-10-02T20:22:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T03:22:49","slug":"this-could-be-the-plant-that-sustains-early-mars-colonies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/this-could-be-the-plant-that-sustains-early-mars-colonies","title":{"rendered":"This could be the plant that sustains early Mars colonies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-could-be-the-plant-that-sustains-early-mars-colonies2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Martian soil needs a little bacteria to house plants.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The findings were detailed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0257053\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">study<\/a> published Wednesday in <em>PLOS One.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The recent experiment is a crucial step in humanity\u2019s vision of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/innovation\/musks-mars-plan-5-years-on-video-bold-specs-a-bizarre-qa\">inhabiting a planet<\/a> other than Earth, addressing the need to grow plants and crops to maintain a sustainable environment.<\/p>\n<p>As scientists search for a place that could potentially host humans, Mars is at the top of the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martian soil needs a little bacteria to house plants. The findings were detailed in a study published Wednesday in PLOS One. The recent experiment is a crucial step in humanity\u2019s vision of inhabiting a planet other than Earth, addressing the need to grow plants and crops to maintain a sustainable environment. As scientists search for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-space","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}