Greenhouse being developed for the Moon
OCT 21, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024763
Space.com : A new type of greenhouse is being refined for future lunar or Martian colonies to grow fresh fruit and vegetables. Scientists at the University of Arizona’s Controlled Environment Agriculture Center (CEAC) built a prototype lunar greenhouse where plants are grown without either soil or sunlight: Potatoes and other vegetables are grown in waterhydroponicallyand are buried in a module beneath a planet’s or moon’s surface to protect them from harmful radiation; they receive light from sodium vapor lamps in the module. The system would operate independently and would use robot-like components. A similar CEAC food-production system has been operating at a South Pole research station for the past six years.
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