So, you may have heard of NASA's Artemis program which has a goal of returning humans to the moon within the next couple of years. There are many goals with this new mission, one of them being to find out if we can live long-term on the moon, and eventually long-term on Mars! They also planted seeds in terrestrial Earth soil from extreme environments, and artificial moon and Mars soil to see how they grew in comparison. When they pulled out the seedlings and did gene expression tests on them, they found the moon soil growing plants were showing signs of stress. Well worth the 11 years of applying for moon soil!

Source: New Zealand Herald May 22, 2022 02:27 UTC