First tomatoes, peas harvested on Mars, moon soil simulant
Tuesday, March 8, 2016 - 11:31
in Astronomy & Space
The second experiment on how to grow crops on Mars and moon soil simulant have given a surprising outcome. As a result of what the researchers in the Netherlands learned from their first experiments, they were able to grow ten different crop species. Tomatoes, peas, rye, garden rocket, radish and garden cress were harvested.