NASA will send to the moon, in 2015, a small greenhouse with which you want to experience the culture of turnips, watercress and basil.
“Our concept is to develop a culture chamber Simple, sealed, which can sustain germination over a period of five to ten days, on the Moon ‘, said the U.S. space agency today quoted by the Spanish news agency Efe.
According to NASA, ” filter paper with dissolved nutrients, into the chamber, you can feed a hundred seeds of cress, ten seeds of basil and ten other turnip ‘.
Ames Research Center NASA explained that, Since landing on the moon the ship sent for this purpose, a mechanism will release a small water tank that humedecerá the role and starts the germination of seeds.
The experience does not include evidence of plant cultivation on soil moon, covered in a powder that lacks many of the nutrients that support plant life and in which there is not decomposed organic material that enriches the earth’s soil.
On the other hand, according to NASA, the radiation levels on the Moon are much more intense than those found on Earth, since the TV does not have an atmosphere that holds the most dangerous rays of the sun.
In addition, the temperatures on the surface of the Moon vary on the same day, between 100 º C and -173 º C and the sky of light and shadow that regulates photosynthesis is subject to the fact that the ‘day’ lunar lasts 28 Earth days.
‘We will use the natural light Sun on the moon as a light source for the germination of plants, a first demonstration of the use of in situ resources, “noted NASA, adding that the shoots will be photographed at regular intervals, with enough to compare with models of resolution growth in control plants on Earth.
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