Students create equipment to grow all kinds of plants in space

While NASA is struggling with potatoes, thought to be easy-to-live, in the hope that they can exist on Mars, a student has created two robots capable of cultivating every plant in every environment.

Referring to plants grown in extraterrestrial space, the whole humanity imagines potatoes. Of course, the effect of the movie The Martian (People returning from Mars) is hard to deny.

But on the other hand, because of the world's leading space agency like NASA, it is agreed that potatoes are agricultural products capable of growing the most alien. Even, they have been working on a project to research and test different varieties of potatoes of Peru (the country has kept many of the world's best potatoes) to find the best adapted potatoes on the star. Fire.

However, no one really likes to eat potatoes all their life in the middle of the old, barren space on the Red Planet.

Hava's device has the potential to grow a variety of plants that seem to be difficult to live in harsh environments like strawberries in space - (Photo: USDA).

Before the challenge of creating more colors and flavors for future meals, a student of the University of Colorado (USA) has developed a device capable of cultivating all kinds of plants in every environment , even the environment. space. Heather Hava won the Lemelson-MIT Student Award in the category Eat it! for your research.

According to Tamara Chuang of The Denver Post, Heather Hava developed two different robotic devices to assist astronauts as they plant trees in space.

The first device called SmartPot (SPOT) has a closet to grow different plants by providing different environments that each needs. The second device, called AgA , uses artificial intelligence (AI) to collect large data to show how these plants will grow and make them fresher.

Hava created these two devices after two weeks in the Mars simulation environment in Utah with other researchers. Here, Hava realized how important food is to humans. She said: "We humans need not only them (food) to survive but they are also factors that bring happiness to us."

The young researcher added that the seemingly weak strawberries could become plants in the future because they are healthy, full of vitality and provide psychological functions (for astronauts) thanks to Red fruit and green leaves.

Hava's device offers hope that in addition to bland potatoes, people will enjoy many other fruits from the barren environment on Mars - (Photo: Phys).

"When someone gets sick, you will see people say" Bring flowers to the hospital to visit. " It is not just a thing to do. It also makes a difference in the healing of people. There will be more flowers of different colors, such as alpine strawberries that help astronauts in such a way, while waiting for the fruit, they (astronauts) have fun watching the flowers , " Hava stated.

Observers commented that, unlike other designs, Hava's device eliminates many boring stages of gardening but retains the psychological function of planting.

The other step involved in testing is just to see if this new device is really resistant to the environment on Mars.

Although there is no guarantee of whether or not the device will be put to work in the harsh environment of Mars or whether it will be put on Mars at the present time, at least we know that There are many hopes that in addition to bland potatoes, people will enjoy many other fruits from the barren environment on Mars.