{"id":31381,"date":"2020-07-21T17:28:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T14:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nasa-scientist-grows-moon-radishes-in-his-own-kitchen\/"},"modified":"2020-07-21T17:28:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T14:28:00","slug":"nasa-scientist-grows-moon-radishes-in-his-own-kitchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nasa-scientist-grows-moon-radishes-in-his-own-kitchen\/","title":{"rendered":"#NASA scientist grows \u2018moon radishes\u2019 in his own kitchen"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#NASA scientist grows \u2018moon radishes\u2019 in his own kitchen<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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July 21, 2020 |<\/span> 10:28am <\/p>\n

\n Humans are headed back to the moon. NASA wants to make it happ<\/a>en by 2024 \u2014 that might not happen, by the way \u2014 but even if it doesn\u2019t meet that ridiculous deadline, we\u2019ll see crewed missions to the lunar surface sooner rather than later. As moon exploration ramps up, scientists are doing their best to learn how to grow things on other worlds, with the assumption being that mankind is going to need to set up shop on the moon or Mars and when they do, they\u2019re going to need something to eat.<\/p>\n

The coronavirus pandemic has put a strain on the work of NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, but researchers recently began at-home experiments to get an idea for how radishes might grow in soil from the moon.<\/p>\n

In a new blog post on the Jet Propulsion Laboratory site, the scientists explain how working from home hasn\u2019t hindered their efforts to test the growth of plants in different soil conditions.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re trying to show astronauts can use horticulture to grow their own food on the moon,\u201d NASA scientist Max Coleman said in a statement. \u201cWe want to do one tiny step in that direction, to show that lunar soil contains stuff which can be extracted from it as nutrients for plants. This includes getting the right chemical elements to allow plants to make chlorophyll and grow cell walls.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the keys to perfecting the art of growing plants in lunar soil is to determine exactly how much water you\u2019d need. Ideally, you\u2019d want to be able to use as little water as possible, as it\u2019s a precious resource that must be used sparingly. When testing radish plants under varying soil moisture conditions, the researchers stumbled upon something great: The plants respond better to low soil moisture, sprouting much faster in the tests where little water was used as opposed to those where the seeds were drenched in water.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to see how little water we can get away with,\u201d Coleman says. \u201cThis immedia<\/a>tely had an impact on how we would do the experiment with water and lunar soil if we get it to the moon.\u201d The fact that the radishes appear to respond better to as little water as possible is incredibly fortuitous and it means that growing crops using lunar soil might be not just possible, but a tiny bit easier than scientists had thought.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t properly test here on Earth with perfect lunar soil, but we\u2019re doing as much here as we can. Then we want to show that it actually does work on the moon,\u201d Coleman explains.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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