Categories: Plant News, Techno Plants, Plants and Science, Online Gardening
April 30, 2008
Paul Zindel wrote the play, Paul Newman directed the movie and it looks like the European Space Agency is now going to show us how to grow marigolds on the moon.
A team led by Natasha Kozyrovska and Iryna Zaetz from the National Academy of Sciences in Kiev planted marigolds in crushed anorthosite, a type of rock found on Earth which is very similar to much of the lunar surface.
They may have planted them, but did the marigolds grow? This is fascinating.
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