A team of British students have a vision for what the future looks like on Mars and it involves lettuce.
Students from Southampton University are seeking the public's help to get their lettuce-growing project into one of the payload spots on Mars One, which is planning to send its first unmanned mission to the planet by 2018.
Scientists working on the initiative took part in a Reddit AMA Monday where they explained more about their unusual project
The scientists, a mix of undergraduate, graduate and post doctoral students aged between 19 and 30, said they picked the leafy green because it's currently grown in Mars simulation experiments on Earth and on board the ISS. Lettuce also converts nutrients to edible material with low waste and is easy to fit into a micro greenhouse. Read more...
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