RegularJoe@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-24 days agoScientists Have Just Successfully Grown Chickpeas In Simulated Moon Dirt For The First Time Using Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi To Absorb Nutrients And Water. dailygalaxy.comexternal-linkmessage-square68linkfedilinkarrow-up1500arrow-down17cross-posted to: soilscience@slrpnk.net
arrow-up1493arrow-down1external-linkScientists Have Just Successfully Grown Chickpeas In Simulated Moon Dirt For The First Time Using Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi To Absorb Nutrients And Water. dailygalaxy.comRegularJoe@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-24 days agomessage-square68linkfedilinkcross-posted to: soilscience@slrpnk.net
minus-squareprettybunnys@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up40·edit-24 days agoVermicompost is something you can readily make on the moon, meaning with this it proves you can take a resource available on the moon and grow in it. Big deal IMO. Well. “Proves” since it’s simulated regolith, not real regolith, and it was done on earth.
minus-squarescarabic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-22 days agoI started out wondering if this simulation would work again in lunar gravity, and now we also need vermiculture to work in lunar gravity.
minus-squareprettybunnys@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-22 days agoWe’re already working on worms in space! https://www.esa.int/kids/en/news/Worms_in_space Granted these aren’t the works we’d make vermicompost from … but still steps in that direction
minus-squarescarabic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoCool. Sadly it doesn’t seem like it was even a goal for those worms to survive.
Vermicompost is something you can readily make on the moon, meaning with this it proves you can take a resource available on the moon and grow in it.
Big deal IMO.
Well. “Proves” since it’s simulated regolith, not real regolith, and it was done on earth.
I started out wondering if this simulation would work again in lunar gravity, and now we also need vermiculture to work in lunar gravity.
We’re already working on worms in space!
https://www.esa.int/kids/en/news/Worms_in_space
Granted these aren’t the works we’d make vermicompost from … but still steps in that direction
Cool. Sadly it doesn’t seem like it was even a goal for those worms to survive.