Mars is one of the planets, which in the future is planning to master as a planet for the lives of people. Some scientists are confident that the atmosphere of Mars can recreate, grow trees, find large ice reserves to obtain the required amount of water. Scientists are developing new technologies that can help people in the colonization of the Red Planet, bringing humanity to large-scale space travel.
On February 17, it became known about the new technology for creating cyanobacteria in conditions as close as possible to Martian. Experts note that the new type of bacteria Anabaena will succeed only at low pressure and using Martian gases, nutrients and water, but production in Earth conditions becomes impossible.
A new technology was told Sipriein Verse, who heads the laboratory of applied space microbiology in the center of Applied Space Technologies and Microgravity (ZARM) of the University of Bremen in Germany. He said the following:
To produce colonies of cyanobacteria on Mars, gases available in the Martian atmosphere can be used as a source of nitrogen and carbon. Also in Martian conditions, cyanobacteria retained their ability to grow in water, which contained only Martian dust. We believe that our development will help even more bring humanity to flights to Mars, as well as the colonization of the planet in the foreseeable future. Cyanobacteria appeared by our efforts, which can survive in the red planet.
Specialists from the scientific world have long been considering the version of the creation of various types of bacteria that can survive on other planets or satellites. Cyanobacteria is able to convert nitrogen from the atmosphere to nutrients. Earlier, experts noted a number of problems related to the maintenance of life support of cyanobacteria, but the new cultivation technique will allow to bypass this problem.
The authors of the study are confident. What artificial conditions created for growing bacteria on Earth coincide with exemplary conditions on Mars, so there should not be unforeseen circumstances when trying to grow cyanobacteria Anabaena on Mars.