My round-up of stories from the world of space plants and gardening this week includes an update on EDEN LUNA, a Biosphere 2 retrospective & French food heading for the ISS!
My round-up of stories from the world of space plants and gardening this week includes an update on EDEN LUNA, a Biosphere 2 retrospective & French food heading for the ISS!
My top stories from the world of space plants and gardening include space bioreactors, a cultural crop seed payload, anthocyanins and synthetic lichen on Mars!
This week's collection of stories from the world of space plants and gardening includes plants for the Moon and for Mars, and fungi to mine asteroids.
Cannabis seeds were among the biological payloads in MayaSat-1, which launched on the SpaceX Transporter 14 rideshare mission last night.
#SpacePlants #astrobotany #Cannabis
https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-sending-cannabis-seeds-space-weed/
This one couldn't be more British. Scientists in Kent are going to try growing tea seedlings grown in Devon in Martian and Moon regolith simulants.
The lovely people at Plants 4 Space have contibuted to another educational video on the topic of growing plants in space.
My round-up of this week's stories from the world of space plants and gardening includes upcoming astrobotany events, Raman spectroscopy, cool art and more!
Scientists in China reckon that adding diatoms to lunar regolith could make it more fertile for growing plants.
https://spacebotany.uk/blog/moon-dirt-meet-diatoms-a-recipe-for-extraterrestrial-farming/
This week's Mission Report is now live. It has plants launching on (now delayed) Axiom-4, a 3D-printed module for space experiments, magnets for plants in microgravity and more!