There’s cotton growing on the far side of the moon—the first time plants have sprouted there. On January 3, a lunar lander called Chang’e-4 touched down on the moon, deploying a rover to explore lunar terrain. The lander also carries a container filled with soil and cotton and potato seeds, and the cotton seeds are now sprouting, an image released by the China National Space Administration today (January 15) shows. The image was published on the People’s Daily, China twitter feed, which is run by the country’s state-owned media group.
“Learning about these plants’ growth in a low-gravity environment would allow us to lay the foundation for our future establishment of space base,” Chongqing University’s Liu Hanlong, who is leading the experiment, says in a statement, according to the South China Morning Post. The space agency is developing preliminary plans for a crewed lunar landing mission in the 2030s, with the possibility of building a moon base with international cooperation afterward.
You cannot grow anything with a 14 days night and freezing temperatures. You'd nee
Aaron Foster
They'd need a power source for the lunar night, both for light and heating,and only nuclear sources wouldn't need a high mass of fuel. The project for a lunar base is meant to be placed at lunar pole where you have permanent sunlight on heights, unusable for traditional greenhouses but a source of power for artificial light ones.
Noah Rodriguez
posted from the moon!
ignore this
Parker Ward
da moons iz mad otta cotton not ceeze my grammie tol me so
Michael Peterson
Cotton does not grow well in cheese, and everyone knows the moon is made out of cheese.
I tried to peruse this thread and get the general gist of it. From what I can gather, the Chinese kidnapped Elvis decades ago and have been forcing him to make cotton-chocolate-hemp cakes on the far side of the moon.
Bentley Martin
/PREPARE!/ The price of cotton may soon plummet as a result of this.
Mason Collins
What does that have to do with the price of cake in China?
Luis Allen
You guise are gonna make killcen mad! REAL News is being 'sliden'.
