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MOSCOW, September 29 – RIA News. Open recently salty streams on the surface of Mars, in principle, can be used as a source of water for future colonies on Mars, including irrigation planting in specially designed greenhouses on the equator, “the god of war,” said John Gransfild, Head scientific division of NASA.
Speaking at a press conference at NASA headquarters, devoted to confirming the discovery “salty streams” on the slopes of several craters on the equator of Mars, Gransfild noted that these water supplies markedly increase the value and future “habitability” of Mars colonists, which do not have to carry with them oxygen and water.
“Of course, just like plants on the surface of Mars will not grow – the atmospheric pressure at the surface is about the same, which would be on the top of Mount Everest height of three, and the leaves of plants will not be able to hold water. On the other hand, if the plants will grow to some greenhouse or in an inflatable house, if Mars is really a lot of water, it can be used for irrigation of plantations “, – said the former astronaut.
According to the Gransfilda, the implementation of these plans will open up a whole layer of new opportunities for the colonists – like a greenhouse will be not only a source of food, but also oxygen and many other things that are essential for the physical and psychological health of the future inhabitants of Mars.
Yesterday, NASA announced the discovery of the most compelling to date evidence of what is now on Mars there is liquid water, although very salty kind, based on the images and data collected by the cameras and instruments of the probe MRO in observations of craters in the vicinity of the equator of the Red Planet. In the near future as told Gransfild and his colleague Jim Green, director of NASA’s division planetologicheskogo, scientists will try to find a similar “salty streams” in the crater Gale, which is now the rover Curiosity.
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