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Picture of the Week: Scientists Grow Flowers in Moondust

A major breakthrough for mankind’s chances at surviving off planet: scientists from the European Space Agency (ESA) have figured out how to grow plants using moon dirt. The secret to growing plants in the infertile lunar soil was to add a bacteria that helped facilitate the nutrients from the faux moon dust (they used crushed anorthosite [...]