"Growing Food on Mars: Innovations and Discoveries"
Interstellar Lab, a startup based in Paris and Los Angeles, has designed a controlled-environment capsule system called NUCLEUS that could allow crops to be grown in space, including on Mars. The system uses vertical farming, a method of growing crops without soil in a controlled environment, and recirculates water to create very little waste. The system is moving to a lab in Cape Canaveral, Florida, to participate in the final phase of NASA’s Deep Space Food Challenge, with the winners announced in April. Vertical farming is considered the only option for agriculture on Mars, according to experts.