Colonizing Mars is a Sisyphean task—we'll have to produce our own food, water, and most importantly, our own atmosphere. This new robotic aerogarden, however, could produce all three.
The grow system is being designed by a team of students from the Colorado University, Boulder and Colorado State as part of the X-Hab competition—an annual engineering contest that aims to develop new space-exploration technologies via a year-long $40,000 grant.
