Space exploration is constantly growing as a field, and our next destination as a human civilization is Mars. Throughout the past few years we have made insane progress and made many new discoveries about Mars environments including isotopes found in soil samples, and signs of life found on Mars by studying the current landscape composition. In such a critical time for making discoveries related to Mars expansion, it is important to understand how possible food sources and nutritional supplements react to different components of Mars's environment. My AP Research project centers around studying how Chorella vulgaris react to changes in light intensity in a Mars simulated environment of Mars's specific sunlight intensity versus that of Earth's specific sunlight intensity. I will simulate an environment with artificial light for each scientific group and observe the cell division and qualitative growth of these plant cells. I will keep the initial cell count of the algae cultures as my control group and make the Mars and Earth environment my experimental groups. Although there have been many studies on algae reacting to different wavelengths and colors of light, and atmospheric pressures, my research topic is truly novel and unique and no studies have been done on the specific thing that I have chosen to do.