Trees to be grown on Mars

[Dover]

Trees to be grown on Mars

A new project from Nasa and three Mexican universities will grow trees on Mars.

The Earth Formation in Mars Project will plant a special type of tree on the red planet that grows on the highest mountain of Mexico, Orizaba Peak.

Nacional Autonoma University of Mexico, Veracruzana University, Veracruz University and Nasa have been researching the trees for years...cont'd

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1219426.html?menu=news.scienceanddiscoveryl

[tridim]

1. Where's the water going to come from?

[Massacure]

2. Plus I doubt there is enough carbon dioxide. The atmosphere very thick.

[BlueEyedSon]

3. I assume you mean "thin"

They should start with blue-green algae.

[Massacure]

5. Oops, my bad. What was I thinking?

Thanks for correcting that.

[soothsayer]

4. Some NASA photos sure look like there's already

vegetation on parts of Mars.

[oneighty]

6. Curious

Every time I hear about transferring earth plants to other planets I wonder about pollinators like the birds and bees for example. What is going to do that? An old lady with a feather?

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PS. Could a bee fly on Mars?

[NNadir]

7. I am perfectly willing to spend $144,233,377,610,987 in perfectly

worthless American currency to do this, if and only if we send the Bush family to Mars (with no return ship) to plant it.

[slutticus]

8. It's going to have to be in some kind of "bubble".

there is no way anything could survive the bombardment of UV radiation on Mars.

[shireen]

9. no!

leave Mars alone. all we'll do is trash it.