{"id":3926119,"date":"2026-05-25T07:04:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T12:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/mars-fungi-could-make-red-planet-regolith-fertile-for-crops\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T07:04:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T12:04:55","slug":"mars-fungi-could-make-red-planet-regolith-fertile-for-crops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/mars-fungi-could-make-red-planet-regolith-fertile-for-crops\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars fungi could make red planet regolith fertile for crops"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>You&#8217;re on the fourth human mission to Mars, and you&#8217;ve been tasked with establishing the first self-sustaining food crop on a Martian settlement. You&#8217;re nervous because you&#8217;re using a new type of fungi called beneficial fungi, which you&#8217;re told will help enhance the Martian regolith, enabling it to be used for growing crops.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-05-mars-fungi-red-planet-regolith.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re on the fourth human mission to Mars, and you&#8217;ve been tasked with establishing the first self-sustaining food crop on a Martian settlement. You&#8217;re nervous because you&#8217;re using a new type of fungi called beneficial fungi, which you&#8217;re told will help enhance the Martian regolith, enabling it to be used for growing crops. <\/p>\n<p>Go to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3926119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3926119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3926119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3926119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3926119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}