LETTUCE ON MARS !!

Soon you can see greens on mars

Yes, it is true. A team of students of Southampton university england are trying to grow lettuce on mars. Lettuce on mars: this project have reached in the finals of international competition, run by mars one, a dutch nonprofit organization, to land experiment on mars.

The plan is one of 10 short-listed university projects, and the only one from the UK, to be selected for potential inclusion in the payload for the Mars One landing in 2018.

Mars One is a Netherlands-based non-profit organization with plans to establish a permanent human colony on Mars by 2025, beating NASA's current aim to send astronauts to Mars by more than a decade.

Project leader suzanna lucarotti claims that they are the first to initiate this kind of experiment.

The lettuce experiment would see seeds frozen for a multi-week trip to the Red Planet. Once on the Martian surface, the lettuce seeds would be grown inside an inflatable greenhouse that would maintain a constant temperature of 70 degrees Fahrenheit.

 For the project called £Lettuce On Mars, the greenhouse would be launched from Earth with lettuce seeds, water, nutrients, and systems for atmospheric processing and electronic monitoring.

On the way to Mars, it would be powered down and inactive whilst the lettuce seeds are frozen.

 Following landing, Mars One will keep greenhouse between 21°C to 24°C

 Carbon dioxide would then be extracted from the Martian atmosphere

  Lettuce would be grown without soil and regularly sprayed with water.

Once the environment had reached suitable conditions, the plant would start growing. The aim is then for photos of the lettuce to be transmitted to Earth, so the public and scientists would be able to watch the lettuce mature from seed to full plant.

 Mars One estimates the cost of sending and sustaining a group of astronauts on Mars, from arrival through death, will cost some $6 billion. So far they've raised -- through donations and an IndieGoGo campaign -- roughly $600,000.