China grows cotton plant on Moon
Oct '19
Among the spacecraft’s payload is a 2.6-kg mini-biosphere called the Lunar Micro Ecosystem (LME).
The LME carried six life forms—cotton seeds, potato seeds, rape seeds, yeast, fruit fly eggs and Arabidopsis thaliana, a common hardy weed—kept in mostly Earth-like conditions except for micro-gravity and lunar radiation.
Cotton germinated in the soil, artificially kept at 1 atmosphere pressure and controlled temperature. Only the cotton seeds produced positive results, according to scientific media reports.
The leader of the project, Xie Gengxin, is from the Advanced Technology Research Institute at Chongqing University.
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