Are soil microbes a key to surviving in space? | All Science. No Fiction.

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Soil microbes will be key to any successful long-term settlement in space. If we want to travel to Mars or other planets to live, we’ll need to grow our own food. One way to do that requires soil. But it’s the microbes within the soil that are the key ingredient in any successful space farming venture, and researchers with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are playing a critical role in understanding which microbes will work best.

All Science. No Fiction. S2 EP3 Space Dirt: Are soil microbes a key to surviving in space?

Chapters
00:00 Are soil microbes the key to surviving in space?
00:55 Soil arrives from space
01:38 The journey of soil microbes in space
02:33 Pacific Northwest National Labs researches soil from space
03:51 What is a soil microbiome?
06:22 How soil microbes behave in space

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Credits:
Produced by Jes Burns
Cinematography by Todd Sonflieth with additional photography by NASA, NASA Goddard Scientific Visualization Studio, Gary Neff
Editing by Todd Sonflieth
Production Design by Jes Burns
Executive Produced by Ed Jahn
Graphic Design by JW Works and Jes Burns
Graphics by Todd Sonflieth and Danika Sandoz
Animation by Emily Hamilton and Jes Burns
Title Animation by MacGregor Campbell, Andy Adkins and JW Works
Post Production and finishing by Michael Bendixen
Music from the Audio Network

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