High-Level Project Summary
We developed a greenhouse coupled to a water production system using chemicals and natural resources, ecological and natural processes such as photosynthesis.This is important because in addition to producing fresh food for astronauts through agriculture, this structure would also produce water for planting and direct consumption.We think that our project would solve the challenge, because in addition to giving ideas on how to plant on Mars, transport seed and create clean water, it also gives ideas on how to keep astronauts' food healthy and with vitamins that are often lacking on their diets on other space missions.
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Detailed Project Description
In a tank composed of molten metals with a substance that increases the speed of the methane reaction, a bubble would be created, which with the junction of the methane gas would make hydrogen and carbon, which, after being ready, would be sent to the storage tanks.
Then, the carbon dioxide that will be conducted to the plants must be released for photosynthesis (during the release of carbon dioxide, all tubes that connect the plants to carbon and the greenhouse to the water creation part must be closed for no mixing of other gases) and turn on the UV lights to help in the plant’s photosynthesis.
After the photosynthesis process, the tubes connecting the greenhouse to the water production system are opened.
The oxygen which is the product of the photosynthesis made will pass through these tubes, where it will receive the hydrogen from the hydrogen tanks and then be conducted through the tubes to the electron releaser (which will use electricity to make these molecules break and join together, forming a H2O molecule in the gaseous state). These water molecules in the gaseous state will undergo a condensation process as they pass through the system's condenser, which will transform this gaseous water into liquid water.
A water pump located at the condenser outlet will pump this H2O through the side tubes to a reservoir where it can be led through a pipe to a faucet and even a greenhouse, which will feed the plants and then restart the cycle of photosynthesis and food planting.
Space Agency Data
To produce this project, we used the following data obtained by NASA:
Mars Conditions.
Physical states of water.
Water on Mars.
Differences between Mars and Earth.
Astronauts Diet.
Methane on Mars.
Transformation of carbon into air
Hackathon Journey
Our experience with Hackathon Journey was very good, we were able to learn in a fun way about important data about Mars and we were able to create our own resolutions for some problems, which was an honor for us.
What inspired us to choose this challenge was because among all, it was the one that caught our attention and aroused our curiosity.
During the period in which we designed our resolution for this challenge, some setbacks appeared, such as the English language, as we had done our project in our mother tongue, we discovered through the regulation that the project should be written in English. This made us look for people who understood the language well and could help us to translate it, who translated it for us was Jessica Miyuki Nagae who we owe thanks.
References
In our project, we had help from many tools which made our work more complete and organized. These tools were: the canva site, which helped us assemble the slides and the final project, the google documents site, which helped us organize our ideas and transfer them to the slides and google itself, which helped us find the information we needed.
We used help from these research sites:
1-https://mundoeducacao.uol.com.br/quimica/o-ph-solo-coloracao-das-plantas.htm, https://elysios.com.br/blog/5-principais-manejos-de-temperatura-de-cultivo-protegido/.
2-https://www.noticiasagricolas.com.br/.
3-https://www.nasa.gov/topics/moon-to-mars.
Tags
#foodinmars #waterproductor #greenhouses #seedsinmars #water #food #mars
Global Judging
This project has been submitted for consideration during the Judging process.