Georgians want to grow grapes on Mars

"Georgians want to grow grapes on Mars"

"is it Possible to grow grapes on Mars? Researchers from Georgia to become the first to succeed, and believes that they have good opportunities to do it."

"– the Georgians were the first wine producers in the world and now we hope to be pioneers with vindruvsodling on the March, " says Nikoloz Doborjginidze, which is one of the founders of the project, the IX Millennium, and is working to develop varieties of grapes that can be grown on the March, to AFP."

"It sounds like science fiction, but the idea to grow crops on the planet can become a reality in the distant future."

"Generally speaking, one can say that the soil on Mars has the nutrients that plants would need," says Andreas Johnsson, Marsforskare at the Department of earth sciences, university of Gothenburg, to the TT."

"There are also many difficulties," he continues. For example, there are substances in the Marsjorden that are directly bad for the man."

"In the Georgian March-the project, the researchers want to first get Marsjorden fertile, and then use it to grow grapes in greenhouses. Astrobiologen Marika Tarasasjvili and her colleagues collect bacteria from regions that have "

" Researchers have made progress in their experiments tells Marika Tarasasjvili for the AFP."

"the Scientists also looked at the shell of Georgia's 525 domestic vindruvssorter, in order to determine which is most resistant to the high levels of ultraviolet radiation that reaches the martian surface. Preliminary results have shown that the green winegrapes Rkatsiteli, which is a popular variety of white wine, is the variation that best withstand the radiation."

"– In the distant future to Marsinvånare be able to grow their crops directly in the marsianska the earth, " says Tusia Garibasjvili, the founder of the company Space Farms, which also supports the project, to the AFP."

"Her business is to build a odlingslaboratorium which she describes as the"

"So what's the point running a project to grow grapes on Mars?"

"– At the side if the dream of vindruvsodling on the March, to do the research ourselves better equipped to meet climate change tells Dean Nino Enukidze from the BTU. We can use our new knowledge to produce crops that are resilient in a future changed climate."

"Mars is the planet in our solar system that goes in the track closest to the outside of the earth. The planet, which appears red, is much smaller than the earth and weighs about a tenth as much. It makes that gravity is much weaker than this."

"the Air contains almost only carbon dioxide and no oxygen. Mars is a cold desert. At the polar regions are ice caps."

"space Probes that visited Mars so far have not been able to find any life on the planet. However, there may have been life in the past, which has died out."

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