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#80 Plants on the Moon. An Australian team of biologists and engineers are really sending a mini greenhouse to the Moon.

#80 Plants on the Moon. An Australian team of biologists and engineers are really sending a mini greenhouse to the Moon.

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An Australian team of botanists and engineers are working on a project that might make or break the future of long term, long distance space occupation. They're growing plants. Not that unusual, but they're trying to grow them on the Moon. Plants produce oxygen and they are food, essential elements of living away from Earth.

Let's check out the plan to experiment with germinating seeds in shoebox sized 'lunariums' on the Moon within the next 12 months.


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