User blog:SpaceF/Visit to the Lab

On the 7th of November 2018 our IRS group visited the genetic engineering lab in Darwin Building, UCL. As spirulina is going to be our main source of nutrients on Mars, we wanted to analyse it in more depth, so we investigated a few different strains under a microscope.

Here are some pictures that we took of various spirulina strains, as well as one other algae species: