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Can China plant vegetables on the moon? What can we plant? After Chang returned to Earth with 1,731 grams of samples from the moon on Thursday, questions began to be discussed online over the weekend.
But science must have disappointed them. “Unlike the organic soil on Earth, the lunar soil has no organic nutrients and is very dry, not suitable for growing vegetables or potatoes,” CCTV anchor Xu Guangquan said in a video posted on Cena. CCTV’s Weibo account on Saturday, citing scientists.
Chinese netizens are very interested in growing vegetables on the moon. The topic “The land of the moon can’t really grow vegetables” on Sina Weibo.3 63. views More than a million views were received and discussed more than 17,000 times, according to press time.
The video had more than 8,100 comments at the bottom. “Chinese people have really stuck to the idea of growing vegetables throughout history,” said a Sina Weibo user jokingly, Siberian-Shuahe.
Another Weibo user commented, “Yuan Longping’s eyes are burning: there’s no place you can’t grow rice!” Yuan, a globally renowned agronomist, is known for developing the first hybrid rice strain, known as the “father of hybrid rice”.
However, although the land on the moon does not grow vegetables, it can be used in other ways. According to a video posted by CCTV, long-term solar winds have injected large amounts of helium-3 into the lunar surface, which could be used as clean energy radiation and generate electricity through thermonuclear fusion, according to a video posted by CCTV. .
The China National Space Administration (CNSA) held a handover ceremony of a lunar model in Beijing on Saturday morning, where the model was handed over to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
CNSA The moon samples will be divided into three parts for different purposes, said Wu Yanhua, deputy head of Na. Some of the labs for scientific research will be received, while the other two will be displayed for public education in national museums and shared with the international community in accordance with the rules of lunar data management. They can also be given as special gifts to countries that work closely with China in aerospace matters.
One Weibo user also boldly assumed, “If we can’t grow vegetables on the moon, how can we go to Mars and get a sample study of the soil from there?”
China launched the country’s first Mars probe, named Tianwen-1, on July 23 and currently, it has traveled 370 million kilometers and traveled more than 100 million kilometers from Earth, according to a CNSA update last week.
Soldiers from the Chinese navy have successfully grown vegetables in the sand on Yongxing Island in the South China Sea. In addition, the Chinese scientific expedition team has also grown vegetables in Antarctica.
Global Times
