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The first astronauts to walk the surface of the Moon in almost half a century will be bringing with them a mini-greenhouse to study how crops adapt to the harsh surrounding environment.
The experiment could help shed light on how growing food in space could allow us to feed ourselves on journeys to the Moon and beyond — an integral aspect of space exploration that could soon be put to the test.to the far side of the Moon as part of its Chang'e 4 mission. The seeds sprouted days later, making it the first biological experiment of any kind on the surface of another world.
And the Lunar Dielectric Analyzer is designed to measure the surrounding lunar dust's ability to conduct electricity, something that's key to our search for lunar ice.
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