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Growing Future Meals in Space Will Require Human Waste

February 28, 2026
Growing Future Meals in Space Will Require Human Waste
By Carolyn Collins Petersen (https://ift.tt/LFm5b4U)

An artist's concept depicts a greenhouse on the surface of Mars. Plants are growing with the help of red, blue, and green LED light bars and a hydroponic cultivation approach. Other methods using soil simulants should also contribute to long-term food production on the Moon and Mars. Image credit: SAIC

Future farmers on the Moon and Mars will have a big challenge: how to grow healthy food in two extremely unhealthy environments. That's because the soil on both worlds isn't at all hospitable to plants and animals. Neither are other conditions. Both are irradiated worlds, Mars has a thin atmosphere and the Moon has none at all. So, how will future colonists on either world grow their food?



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