A Whole New World: The Search for the Environment for New Life

Challenge:

The year is 2080; teams of scientists have been studying the feasibility of living on different planets in our solar systems based on their research on water and soil samples from four newly discovered planets. In 2065, teams ran various tests on each planet’s most abundant liquid to determine which one had a liquid most like water and could possibly sustain life. In 2070, teams made recommendations to the United Nations based on various tests on each planet’s soil to determine which soil on these four planets would best support the farming of soybeans. The United Nations had chosen soybeans for many reasons including the ease in growing, soil tolerance, nutritional value, food products that could be manufactured from soybeans, dietary health, ability to use as animal feed, organic fertilizers as well as a source for a variety of bio fuels. These missions have been instrumental i