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So far, the findings expand, tweak and add to earlier estimates about the Martian surface, NASA said. Skip to Article. Set weather. ... Think of the volcanic soil of Hawaii.

Simulated Mars soil can be packed together into a solid brick-like material — without needing any added ingredients to hold it together. That might mean real Martian soil could be easily used as ...

North Charleston Academic Magnet High School students win first at international NASA contest aimed to research growing crops ...

Bhavishyaa Vignesh, a student at The Knowledge Society San Francisco, is trying develop an AI-powered model to help Mars ...

Imagine printing your Martian home from dust, sunlight, and a bit of biology. A new synthetic lichen system uses fungi and ...

Scientists from the Dutch Wageningen University and Research Center say they have had surprising success with crops grown in a simulated Martian soil created by NASA. In their first experiments ...

No soil on Earth is a perfect replica of Martian stuff. And like the dirt on our own planet, it's not uniform.Just as the white sand of the Amazon river basin is completely different from the ...

Martian soil — or regolith — isn't exactly ideal for plants from Earth. It tends to be rocky and coarse, and lacks the right organic matter.

PASADENA, Calif. — (CNN) — Scoop up some soil on Mars, heat it up, cool down the steam and … slurp, slurp! You’ve got water! Mars might appear dry as a desert, but astronauts may someday ...