Researchers have grown plants in the soil of the Moon, according to a recent report from NASA.
The study not only can help scientists better overcome food scarcity here on Earth, but it can also help them develop food sources for future humans living or traveling in space.
Lunar “soil” is not the same as the soil on Earth.
It is actually a layer of unconsolidated debris called regolith and is comprised of a complex mixture of five basic ingredients: crystalline rock fragments, mineral fragments, breccias, agglutinates, and glasses.
The thickness of it varies from about 15 feet on the surface of lunar mares, which are the dark spots on the Moon from our perspective here on Earth, to about 30 feet on the Moon’s highland surfaces….