{"id":728,"date":"2008-06-27T16:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T16:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/06\/27\/growing-asparagus-on-mars\/"},"modified":"2008-06-27T16:36:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-27T16:36:00","slug":"growing-asparagus-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/06\/27\/growing-asparagus-on-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Asparagus on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Mars Daily, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marsdaily.com\/reports\/Martian_Soil_Good_Enough_For_Asparagus_999.html\"><em>Martian Soil Good Enough For Asparagus<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Washington DC (AFP) Jun 27, 2008 Martian dirt is apparently good enough for asparagus to grow in, NASA scientists said Thursday, as they announced the results of a soil analysis collected by the US Phoenix Mars lander. &#8220;There is nothing about the soil that would preclude life. In fact it seems very friendly,&#8221; said Samuel Kounaves, the project&#8217;s lead chemist at the University of Arizona in a telephone press conference.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The soil you have there is the type of soil you have in your backyard,&#8221; said Kounaves. &#8220;You may be able to grow asparagus very well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The analysis is based on a cubic centimeter of soil scooped up by the lander&#8217;s robotic arm and introduced into one of its eight ovens, where it was gradually heated up to 1,000 degrees Celsius.<\/p>\n<p>Kounaves said his team was &#8220;flabbergasted&#8221; at the results that came back.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We basically have found what appears to be the requirements of the nutrients to support life, past, present or future,&#8221; said Kounaves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/25396378\/\">MSNBC.com<\/a> reports that while it would be good for asparagus growing, it wouldn&#8217;t do well for strawberries.  The soil is a bit too alkaline.<\/p>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Mars Daily, Martian Soil Good Enough For Asparagus: Washington DC (AFP) Jun 27, 2008 Martian dirt is apparently good enough for asparagus to grow in, NASA scientists said Thursday, as they announced the results of a soil analysis &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/06\/27\/growing-asparagus-on-mars\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}