Thread: I predict the first gardens on Mars in 2020 ! ! !
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Old 27-10-2004, 01:58 AM
Spud Demon
 
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(DavesVideo) writes in article dated 25 Oct 2004 16:30:55 GMT:
LOL! yeah, at -200 degrees.

And a high of about +68 degrees. I guess nothing can grow there just like in
Alaska where it can get down to -90. We know there are no plants in Alaska.

I suspect you could have a nice lichen garden, but anything else would have to
be in a green house.

Light intensity would be a problem too. Because Mars is farther away from
the Sun, it gets only 43% of the light intensity. So the Martian equator at
the equinox is about as bright as Fairbanks, AK.

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