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#1 2008-04-17 11:54:07
- louis
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Re: Lunar soil is great growing medium
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7351437.stm
Interesting link showing that lunar regolith, ground down, plus bacteria gives a good growing medium.
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#2 2008-04-17 13:40:19
- Grypd
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Re: Lunar soil is great growing medium
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7351437.stm
Interesting link showing that lunar regolith, ground down, plus bacteria gives a good growing medium.
Sorry louis posted this already in the lunar Outpost thread.
Chan eil mi aig a bheil ùidh ann an gleidheadh an status quo; Tha mi airson cur às e.
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#3 2013-12-07 14:29:10
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Re: Lunar soil is great growing medium
NASA May Test Its Lunar Green Thumb
NASA is looking at possible private rides to the moon—commercial spacecraft companies are competing to collect the Google Lunar X-Prize—but no decision has been made yet.
If all goes as planned, NASA may land its first experimental garden on the moon in late 2015.
Scientists at the Ames Research Center in California are putting together the “Lunar Plant Growth Habitat” project with the hopes of sending an automated small greenhouse (complete with turnips, basil and flower seeds) to the moon in an attempt to see if plants will germinate there.
Soon after touching down on the dusty lunar surface, the self-contained habitat would release a spray of water from a reservoir and automatically douse a nutrient-soaked piece of paper. The paper will then drip onto the seeds below—hopefully spurring them to grow.
The entire 2.2 pound (1 kilogram) experiment should last only 5 to 10 days, with its progress captured through images beamed back to Earth.
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#4 2013-12-07 14:41:57
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Re: Lunar soil is great growing medium
But the concept is not an official aim of Esa, and one of the agency's senior officials has dismissed the idea as "science fiction".
As Zoe from Firefly would say, "you build spaceships dear."
Use what is abundant and build to last
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