Medicine & TechnologyWild turkeys unexpectedly visit NASA Ames Research Center and are reportedly stopping traffic, pecking at cars and windows, and posing threat to aircraft operations, which led officials to call on feds to relocate the animals.
In hopes of a long future on the Red Planet, researchers have proposed the addition of a horticultural experiment onboard NASA’s next Mars rover mission, scheduled to land in 2021. The proposed project, known simply as the “Mars Plant Experiment” (MPX) would not only aid in the understanding of plant growth on foreign planets, but also would lay the foundations for future colonies currently planning on settling in on Mars.