Using Microbes to Mine Mars: The Future of Biomining

This video was sponsored by Skillshare. The first 1000 people who click the link will get a free trial of Skillshare Premium: https://skl.sh/scishowspace01211 Humans have been using microbes to separate minerals from mud since the middle of the last century, so we know biomining works on earth. But how will these tiny miners work in microgravity? Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Silas Emrys, Jb Taishoff, Bd_Tmprd, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Ash, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.americangeosciences.org/critical-issues/faq/what-biomining https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8obopaD8bXA&feature=youtu.be https://www.space.com/space-mining-microbes-space-station-experiment https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19276-w https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0958166914000809?via%3Dihub https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/8/8/343/htm https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15436401/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-52778-2 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23793914/ https://sfamjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1751-7915.12059 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0301420712000530 Image Sources: https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/a-miner-is-mining-ore-with-a-pickaxe-hxrv_bakeizkh898v https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/excavator-loads-ore-into-a-large-mining-dump-truck-gm1175055872-327052727 https://archive.org/details/jsc2019m000619_Biomining_in_Space-MXF/jsc2019m000619_Biomining_in_Space-MP4.mp4 https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/molten-iron-at-the-plant-hlxefu15eizllq4tl https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4125561


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