POWDER – More than 50 years ago in Project Apollo, humans for the first time managed to set foot on moon. A journey from moon it also brought souvenirs in the form of land moon which has been researched for years for its potential to find out whether it is possible that soil moon it can be overgrown plant the same as on earth.
Recently, the research finally paid off. Researchers from the University of Florida, United States, reported that they succeeded in growing a plant small named Thale Cress who managed to grow in 3 different soil samples from moon.
To grow plant it’s on the ground moonthe researcher used a comparison with plant which is grown in soil made of volcanic ash on earth called JSC-1A by NASA while soil moon The soil used for this experiment was soil taken from Project Apollo 11, 12, and 17 conducted between 1969 and 1972.
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From the results of growth plant for 16 days, plant grown in the ground moon from Apollo 11 did not thrive and tend to rot because Apollo 11 soil is the ‘oldest’ soil or is the soil on the outermost part moon the most contaminated surface moon. The land is unable to grow plant due to surface moon does not have a protective atmosphere like the earth so that the land has most likely been hit by meteors, exposed to cosmic rays, to be hit by particles thrown from the sun.
In contrast, the soil from Apollo 12 was quite successful in growing plant because he is slightly younger than the soil of Apollo 11, and the soil of Apollo 17 is the most fertile to grow plant because the land is the youngest of the three.
Plants grown on artificial volcanic soils grow faster and more fertile than plant grown in the ground moon.
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Meanwhile, the result of plant that grows on the ground moon exhibits salt-related and oxidative stress and metal-related properties. Oxidative stress itself is the occurrence of stress due to an imbalance between free radicals and antioxidants, where Apollo 11 soil has the highest stress content which is assumed to be the result of exposure to cosmic rays and solar wind.
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