363-7 The Martian: It's Not Just Science Fiction.
See more from this Division: SSSA Division: Soil Physics and Hydrology
See more from this Session: New Frontiers of Soil and Plant Sciences: Astropedology and Space Agriculture
Wednesday, November 9, 2016: 10:10 AM
Phoenix Convention Center North, Room 125 B
Abstract:
Here we analyze the effect of altered atmospheres and reduced gravity on the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum. Planetary environments will alter plant water status and water recycling rates. Altered photosynthetic radiation will change plant metabolic rates and oxygen demand in the root-zone. Rates of microbial nitrogen transformation will be altered. We have to science the shit out of this.
See more from this Division: SSSA Division: Soil Physics and Hydrology
See more from this Session: New Frontiers of Soil and Plant Sciences: Astropedology and Space Agriculture