The Importance Of Planet Earth

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Planet Earth is the only home people have ever known ,but people cannot stay on it forever because due to the loss of biodiversity , pollution , deforestation and the rising of the temperature caused by people .the good news is that people are in a new space race . Its believed that by the mid 2030’s human can orbit , live and occupy other planets safely .

Humans are living organisms that cannot make their own food , therefor need to feed on other substances like plants that make their own food by taking in inorganic substances found in the air and soil of the planet earth and producing organic substances to keep living and function properly .
Scientists have investigated growing seeds in 2015 such as Basil , Arabidopsis and Turnips on mars . why mars not other planets you might ask ? well , mars is the 4th planet right after planet earth where there is life which makes it similar in some properties that are efficient for life and has some pretty important fundamentals needed like element that have been discovered such as (H) (Na) (Mg) (K) (Ca) (O) (Ti) (Cr) (Fe) (Ni) (Al) (Si) (P) (S) (Cl) lead and mercury and the most important material which is oceans of frozen water (H2O) in the soil that are necessary for creating building material like plastics, …show more content…

100 seeds of Arabidopsis and 10 seeds each for basil and turnips on filter paper with dissolved nutrients specially nitrogen due to the poorness of nitrogen of the soil which is needed for better results inside the unit to mars , then irrigating it with water and after 5-10 days photographs will be taken and sent back to earth to be compared with the same plants growing on earth by scientists . the investigation is still being experimented and tested on mars soil which contains a heavy metal and poisonous elements such as mercury and lead that a plant would not mind taking in that would spread around the plant including the fruit that a human on mars will eat

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