It is possible to grow vegetables in Antarctica without soil and sunlight
This will be a huge step forward in providing food for human outer space missions.
This will be a huge step forward in providing food for human outer space missions.
According to Quartz, a group of German scientists currently working at the EDEN-ISS research station in Antarctica has grown and harvested successful vegetable plants in the absence of dedicated soil and sunlight. Working in a laboratory the size of a container in a remote, icy land, the team obtained about 3.5 kg of green vegetables after the first planting, including trees herbs, agurula salad, lettuce and red radish.
Scientist Paul Zabel holds the research team's results
Lettuce vegetables are grown in greenhouses.
Radish.
Lettuce Agurula.
Swiss lettuce and red radish.
The first vegetables were harvested.
Newly grown lettuce.
Parsley, basil and chilli are also grown here.
EDEN-ISS research room.
Researchers are currently working with the EDEN-ISS project, in conjunction with the German Aeronautics and Space Center. The goal of this project is to find ways to cultivate and provide food for human missions outside the universe. The isolated and harsh environment of Antarctica has become an ideal place for researchers to simulate the surface of Mars or the Moon.
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