Mars is 250 million miles from Earth at the farthest point in the planets' orbits. Sheer distance makes unpredictable weather, unexpected illness and even homesickness potentially deadly problems. Residents of the future Mars base won't be able to count on a rescue mission.
For other Devil's Trumpet, see Datura (disambiguation). Datura is a genus of nine species of poisonous vespertine flowering plants belonging to the family Solanaceae. They are commonly known as daturas, but also known as devil's trumpets, not to be confused with angel's trumpets, its closely related genus Brugmansia.
Common names of Datura. It has been known by many names such as jimson weed, stink weed, mad apple, thorn apple stramonium, dhatura tatula, and datura seeds. Datura is also known by other common names such as Devilâs snare, hellâs bell, devilâs trumpet, devilâs weed, tolguacha, locoweed, pricklyburr and devilâs cucumber.