Using samples brought back from NASA’s Apollo 11, 12, and 17 missions, University of Florida biologists showed that a model terrestrial plant, Arabidopsis thaliana, can successfully germinate and grow in diverse lunar regoliths. “For future, longer space missions, we may use the Moon as a hub or launching pad. It makes sense that we would […]
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Plants Can Germinate and Grow in Lunar Soil: Study
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