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Researchers had no idea if anything would sprout in harsh moon dirt and wanted to see if it could be used to grow food by the next generation of lunar explorers. The results stunned them.
Scientists at the University of Florida have grown an Earth plant thale cress in lunar soil samples collected during the Apollo missions. This experiment proves for the first time that plants can also be grown in lunar soil.
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University of Florida researchers had no idea if anything would grow in moon dirt returned by Apollo 11′s Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.
For the first time, scientists have grown plants in soil from the moon collected by NASA's Apollo astronauts.
Researchers at the University of Florida planted thale cress in harsh lunar dirt returned by Apollo 11 astronauts