This is star talk, your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide. Can you grow plants on other planets? Right? And nobody thinking about what role the soil is playing. So we combed the world, and we found two people who can do it. We'll learn more about that in a minute.
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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