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.
Datura seeds parts used are seeds, flowers and leaves. All the parts of datura contain dangerous level of poison like tropane alkaloids atropine, hyoscyamine, scopolamine, which are considered as deliriants or anticholinergics. Datura is used as poison because the presence of alkaloids such as scopolamine, hyoscyamine, and atropine. 2  The growing datura plant acts like as insect repellent thereby protects other plants from insects. 3  The juice of datura plant is applied over the scalp to treat hair fall, hair loss and dandruff.