Speculative Proposal / Conceptual Design: 

Describe your vision. What is the driving idea behind it? What are your goals and motivations?

  We want to design a garden that directly addresses the basic needs of a plant to ensure its growth: proper watering, proper air quality, and proper sunlight. In response to these three needs, we have implemented three simple systems. The water pumps control the dispensing and collection of water, the carbon dioxide sensors open and close the solenoid, and the light sensor on top of the habitat reads the existing sunlight levels to operate the other systems. We believe that focusing on the basic needs of the plant makes the overall mission easier in terms of complexity and technicalities. We envision this system to work autonomously and separate from human interaction. There will be opportunities for human intervention, but our goal is create a series of systems that respond to Mars’ natural environment or to the climate within the structural shell.