{"id":90007,"date":"2019-04-26T17:23:14","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T00:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/this-martian-greenhouse-concept-just-won-a-nasa-award"},"modified":"2019-04-26T17:23:14","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T00:23:14","slug":"this-martian-greenhouse-concept-just-won-a-nasa-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/this-martian-greenhouse-concept-just-won-a-nasa-award","title":{"rendered":"This Martian Greenhouse Concept Just Won a NASA Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R526kxDOf0E?feature=oembed\" frameBorder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The hydroponic structure could allow astronauts to grow their own food on the desolate Martian surface. It\u2019d cultivate up to eight food crops could be grown inside a rotating system that could serve up 3100 calories per day for four astronauts over a 600 day excursion to the Red Planet.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019d grow kale, soy, sweet potato, potato, broccoli, strawberry, wheat, and chufa. A massive tank filled with a nutrient solution under the ceiling feeds a circular system of crop trays with the help of gravity. LEDs make sure that the plants get enough sunlight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/martian-greenhouse-nasa-award\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hydroponic structure could allow astronauts to grow their own food on the desolate Martian surface. It\u2019d cultivate up to eight food crops could be grown inside a rotating system that could serve up 3100 calories per day for four astronauts over a 600 day excursion to the Red Planet. It\u2019d grow kale, soy, sweet [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90007","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}