Scientists for the first time have grown plants in soil from the moon collected by NASA’s Apollo astronauts.
In this 2021 photo provided by the University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, a researcher places a thale cress plant grown during a lunar soil experiment in a vial for genetic analysis at a laboratory in Gainesville, Fla. For the first time, scientists have used lunar soil collected by long-ago moonwalkers to grow plants, with results promising enough that NASA and others already are envisioning hothouses on the moon for the next generation of lunar explorers.
This 2021 photo provided by the University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences shows the differences between thale cress plants grown in volcanic ash from Earth, which had a similar particle size and mineral composition to lunar soil, left, compared with those grown in the lunar soil, right, after 16 days, at a laboratory in Gainesville, Fla.
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