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.

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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.