Video: NASA develops vegetable greenhouses on the Moon and Mars

NASA is developing a greenhouse project with the University of Arizona in the hope that astronauts can grow their own vegetables in future missions on the Moon or Mars.

The entire greenhouse system on the Moon represents the Earth's ecosystem on a small scale.

Veggie Plant Growth System Veggie Plant Growth System (NASA) is the first experiment to grow fresh food on the International Space Station (ISS). NASA hopes to provide a more sustainable solution in the long-term destiny of exploring the Moon, Mars and the cosmos further.

"The entire greenhouse system on the Moon represents a small-scale Earth ecosystem , " said Dr. Gene Giacomelli, director of the Controlling Environment Agriculture Center at the University of Arizona, USA.