Meet Jeremiah Bents, the Minnesota student who recreated Mars soil in a lab to test whether future astronauts could clean contaminated water

• Image AI generatedMars may be millions of kilometres from Minnesota, but for Cloquet student Jeremiah Bents, one small part of a future Mars mission could be tested much closer to home.
• Instead of looking at how to reach the Red Planet, Bents turned his attention to what astronauts might do once they get there, particularly when dealing with water.
• His science fair project examined whether a Mars soil simulant could help remove ammonia from contaminated water.