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ETH Podcast
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Life on Mars
15 minutes Posted Jun 19, 2019 at 6:00 am.
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How to survive an extraterrestrial journey

ETH researcher Grace Crain thinks on a galactic scale. She is hoping to develop an ecosystem that could provide food, drinking water and clean air to astronauts on a space station or to the inhabitants of a Moon or Mars base. She explains why she chooses to use human urine and faeces to fertilise her plants.

http://www.plantnutrition.ethz.ch/

Produced by This Wachter's Audio Story Lab and Jennifer Khakshouri. Music, Sound Design and Mastering by Luki Fretz.