{"id":70740,"date":"2017-07-07T03:23:19","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T10:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/world-premiere-of-the-antarctic-greenhouse-eden-iss"},"modified":"2017-07-10T12:00:30","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T19:00:30","slug":"world-premiere-of-the-antarctic-greenhouse-eden-iss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/world-premiere-of-the-antarctic-greenhouse-eden-iss","title":{"rendered":"World premiere of the Antarctic greenhouse EDEN-ISS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Global food production is one of the key societal challenges of the 21st century. A growing world population with the simultaneous upheaval caused by climate change demand new methods of cultivating crops in regions with unfavourable climates. A closed greenhouse is a good way of growing food in deserts and low-temperature regions \u2013 as would be the case on missions to the Moon and Mars \u2013 as it permits harvesting regardless of the weather, the Sun and specific seasons. In a closed greenhouse, water consumption is immensely reduced and there is no need for pesticides and insecticides. This kind of model greenhouse will set off for the Antarctic at the end of 2017 for a year of long-term testing under extreme conditions as part of the EDEN-ISS project<\/a>. Unparalleled elsewhere in the world, this Antarctic greenhouse was presented to the public for the first time at the Bremen site of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum f\u00fcr Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) on 7 July 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cDLR is pursuing application-oriented research within the EDEN-ISS project. Its purpose is to bring fresh impetus to food production on Earth and for human space flight,\u201d says Hansj\u00f6rg Dittus, DLR Executive Board Member for Space Research and Technology. \u201cIn doing so, we are advancing the cause of a key technology that will provide a fresh diet to inhabitants of climatically harsh regions \u2013 in our case the Antarctic \u2013 as well as to astronauts on future long-term missions.\u201d<\/p>\n

A year on the eternal ice.<\/p>\n

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