{"id":175328,"date":"2023-11-02T21:22:44","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T02:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/the-first-ever-lunar-farm-shows-that-plants-can-grow-on-the-moon"},"modified":"2023-11-02T21:22:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T02:22:44","slug":"the-first-ever-lunar-farm-shows-that-plants-can-grow-on-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/the-first-ever-lunar-farm-shows-that-plants-can-grow-on-the-moon","title":{"rendered":"The First-Ever Lunar Farm Shows That Plants Can Grow On The Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-first-ever-lunar-farm-shows-that-plants-can-grow-on-the-moon2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Plants are not just able to survive in low gravity such as on the Moon, two new papers suggest \u2013 they may prefer it, at least based on the only species to sprout.<\/p>\n<p>When Chang\u2019e 4 landed on the Moon in January 2019 it carried with it a payload that could dictate the future of space exploration: seeds of four plant species it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/china-has-just-sprouted-a-plant-on-the-far-side-of-the-moon-51216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sought to grow<\/a> on the lunar surface. The germination of a single cotton seed attracted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/we-have-some-terrible-news-about-the-seedling-that-sprouted-on-the-moon-51242\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">plenty of attention<\/a> at the time, but there\u2019s more to growth than just sprouting. If crops grown on the Moon are less productive or more fragile than those on Earth, it\u2019s going to be a big problem.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s taken more than four years, but important results from the experiment have now been released and they suggest that for all the obstacles to establishing colonies on the Moon and Mars, growing food might not be one. Then again, it\u2019s still very early days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plants are not just able to survive in low gravity such as on the Moon, two new papers suggest \u2013 they may prefer it, at least based on the only species to sprout. When Chang\u2019e 4 landed on the Moon in January 2019 it carried with it a payload that could dictate the future of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-space","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}