Many of our scientific questions are about what happens in micro gravity. The absence of unit gravity here on earth has been a driving evolutionary presence for all of biology forevero. Going back to the moon now opens up sort of the intellectual floodgates, and we do have to come to grips with ta question, what happens to biology when it's not protected by a magnetic field? So absolutely, solar floots is an important thing. Are there layers here? In other words, whonce you establish you can grow something in the regular tlick. You have the factor in cosmic rays, solar winds and and how you can and the substreets. And how do you have you started
Can you actually grow potatoes on Mars? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Paul Mecurio explore how to grow plants in space and whether we can farm on the Moon and Mars with space biologists Anna-Lisa Paul and Robert Ferl.
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