Plants sprout from moon soil in groundbreaking test

By Abigail Adcox

Published May 13, 2022 1:57pm ET

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Plants sprout from moon soil in groundbreaking test — Researchers were over the moon about the earth-shattering discovery that seeds can grow in moon soil in a first-of-its-kind test. Scientists at the University of Florida successfully planted seeds from the Arabidopsis thaliana plant, commonly known as thale cress, into teaspoon-sized samples of lunar soil collected during the 1969-1972 Apollo missions, which in turn sprouted […]

Researchers were over the moon about the earth-shattering discovery that seeds can grow in moon soil in a first-of-its-kind test.

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