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NASA Sends 12.5 Million Tomato Seeds to Space for a Year, but Challenger Tragedy Delays Recovery, Leaving Them in Orbit for Nearly Six Years
5+ hour, 58+ min ago (936+ words) In 1984, NASA launched 12.5 million tomato seeds on an orbital platform, intending to retrieve them less than a year later. The goal was to determine whether exposure to the space environment would affect germination and plant growth, according to Compre Rural....
Space garden: China successfully grows more than 20 varieties of plants in space
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (186+ words) To date, China has grown on orbit more than 20 varieties belonging to 14 plant species, the Astronaut Center of China reported, calling it a milestone that lays the groundwork for large-scale plant cultivation aboard the space station. For China, the era…...
FLEX satellite in orbit: studying plant responses to climate change from space
1+ week, 1+ day ago (346+ words) The Vega-C rocket has placed the FLEX and Sentinel-3C satellites in orbit from French Guiana, enabling scientists to study the state of vegetation and obtain new data on the oceans, land, ice and the atmosphere. Since Tuesday, Europe has had…...
FLEX satellite now in orbit: to study how plants respond to climate change
1+ week, 1+ day ago (344+ words) The Vega-C rocket has placed into orbit from French Guianathe FLEX and Sentinel-3C satellites, which will make it possible to study the state of vegetation and obtain new data on the oceans, land, ice and the atmosphere Europe now has…...
Vega-C launches FLEX and Sentinel-3C to reveal how Earth’s vegetation responds to climate change
1+ week, 1+ day ago (196+ words) ESAâs Vega-C has launched the FLEX and Copernicus Sentinel-3C satellites into orbit. FLEX will detect the faint fluorescence emitted by plants during photosynthesis, helping scientists study vegetation health, environmental stress and the global carbon cycle. Sentinel-3C will monitor Earthâ…...
Wheat, peppers and tomatoes to grow on Moon
1+ week, 5+ day ago (265+ words) Wheat, tomatoes, sweet peppers and leafy greens could become the first crops grown on future lunar bases. Four types of crops — wheat, sweet peppers, tomatoes and leafy greens — are being considered for cultivation in space facilities designed to resemble future…...
Chinese astronauts demonstrate how they grow plants in space
1+ week, 5+ day ago (208+ words) Hortidaily Chinese astronauts have demonstrated how crops can be cultivated aboard the country's Tiangog space station, as part of a series of experiments aimed at understanding plant growth under space conditions The experiments have included aeroponic cultivation, which is a…...
How Chinese astronauts grow fresh veg in space
2+ week, 4+ hour ago (91+ words) news.cgtn.com How Chinese astronauts grow fresh veg in space Growing greens in zero gravity is the next frontier conquered by China's astronauts. The Shenzhou-23 crew gave Hong Kong and Macao SAR students a live look inside their "space…...
Separating Wheat from Chaff??? from Space
2+ week, 20+ hour ago (121+ words) The problem is that there is no centralized, comprehensive way for conservation program managers and researchers to see exactly where and when those cover crops are growing and measure their impact. This is where the view from space can help....
Transformer-based pipeline enables scalable phenotyping of rice root
2+ week, 1+ day ago (810+ words) Rice feeds more than half of humanity, but its flooded paddies come with a hidden atmospheric cost: waterlogged soils trap oxygen, push roots into anaerobic stress, and foster the microbes that produce methane, one of the most potent greenhouse gases....