Uploaded September 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Future human explorers on Mars are going to need to live off the land. That means making things like food and medicine using Martian resources. NASA’s CO2 Conversion Challenge aims to find a way to turn CO2 on Mars into the essentials future astronauts will need to survive.
The challenge seeks to develop technologies that use carbon dioxide to generate molecules (glucose is desired) that can be used in microbial bioreactors, essentially taking the role of what plants do on Earth. If we can do this, we can then create all sorts of other products from the glucose.
Get the details: co2conversionchallenge.org
Future human explorers on Mars are going to need to live off the land. That means making things like food and medicine using Martian resources. NASA’s CO2 Conversion Challenge aims to find a way to turn CO2 on Mars into the essentials future astronauts will need to survive.
The challenge seeks to develop technologies that use carbon dioxide to generate molecules (glucose is desired) that can be used in microbial bioreactors, essentially taking the role of what plants do on Earth. If we can do this, we can then create all sorts of other products from the glucose.
Get the details: co2conversionchallenge.org
