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ESPERANZA II: Feeding fifteen people on Mars

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A proposed closed-loop food-production system for feeding 15 Mars crew members for 500 sols, with a claimed 53% of calories grown in situ.

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This is a Mars farm designed as one physical loop rather than a collection of isolated modules: perchlorate removal, regolith processing, cyanobacteria, fermentation, crew probiotics, and automated control all share the same budgets for water, heat, carbon, lighting, and labor. Its most arresting proposal turns lunar regolith into both outbound radiation shielding and a targeted mineral corrector for Martian soil.

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