NASA-funded company to produce oxygen on Mars using bacteria

economictimes.indiatimes.com ^

[BenLurkin]

The Indiana-based company has developed a "Mars room," which plays host to a test chamber capable of emulating the inhospitable conditions prevailing on the red planet.

In the Mars room, Chief scientist Eugene Boland at Techshot Inc is exploring the potential of using ecosystem-building pioneer organisms such as bacteria or algae as oxygen factories.

The organisms would use Mars' ample supply of regolith as fuel, and may even serve a dual purpose in removing nitrogen from the M ..

[NormsRevenge]

Regolith? Hmmmmm..

Sounds like a heavy metal rock band

[Norm Lenhart]

How does this make Muslims feel better and are there plans in place to counter sue the Sierra Club types because you KNOW that they will NEVER allow this to tough Mars soil without ecoterror and lawsuits out the whazoo.

[tet68]

I understand a toy company is coming out with a
Martian soil to play with...

It’s called Legolith...

haha....ha.

[Red_Devil 232]

= Soil

[struggle]

I’m writing a sci-fi novel (or trying) and this is one of my things about living on the moon - you live underground, in rooms sprayed with a non-permiable polymer, with an “air-box” of GMO algae made to control Co2/O2 levels. If the O2 level gets too high, you simply turn the lights down, and vice versa.

It’s then simply to put the oxygen bottles away.

[Nachum]

[BenLurkin]

Muslims and Sierra Club types ?

[Norm Lenhart]

Sure eventually. But until then ;)

[BenLurkin]

Sounds like a an okay place for an old guy to retire to. Where do I sign up?

[dsrtsage]

I would suggest reading this series...there are 3 books, "Red Mars", "Green Mars", and "Blue Mars"..a large theme in the book is the multigenerational battle between those that wished to terraform mars for people, and the "Reds" who wanted to keep mars barren and "pristine" sometimes at all costs...

[Jmouse007]

"Weyland Corporation; 'Building better worlds.'"

What could possibly go wrong?

[Gene Eric]

From Jamaica...

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin. Terraforming Mars extra to APoD.

[colorado tanker]

From Wiki:

"Regolith is a layer of loose, heterogeneous superficial material covering solid rock. It includes dust, soil, broken rock, and other related materials and is present on Earth, the Moon, Mars, some asteroids, and other terrestrial planets and moons."