Podcast "Listen, it's easy": what is terraforming and where exactly outside the Earth people could settle

In the summer of 2022, biologists from the University of North Dakota (USA) were able to grow terrestrial plants on asteroid soil. Or rather, on a carbonaceous chondrite simulator. Chondrites are the most common type of meteorite falling to Earth. Through the efforts of scientists, shoots of chili peppers, radishes and lettuce sprang up on this extraterrestrial soil.

A few months earlier, researchers from the University of Florida, for the first time in history, raised greenery on lunar soil. In a test tube with lunar dust, plants developed a little more slowly than in terrestrial volcanic ash, and their root system was not as developed. But still, the seeds were able to sprout on the dust from the moon - they gave rise to shoots.

Scientists have been exploring various objects in our solar system for many years to understand whether humanity can “move” somewhere if something happens to the Earth. Do we have a chance right now to inhabit another planet, we are trying to figure it out in this issue.

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