A chickpea flower grown in 75 per cent moon mud
Image provided by Jessica Atkin at Texas A&M College
Chickpeas might be able to develop on the moon with the assistance of a fungus and a few worms. Lunar soil is notoriously inhospitable to life, however the addition of a easy fungus and earthworms can enable chickpeas – and presumably different vegetation as effectively – to develop there.
Moon mud is pointy and clumpy, lacks a number of of the vitamins that vegetation want and is stuffed with poisonous contaminants that might kill off any greenery attempting to develop there. Jessica Atkin at Texas…
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