China lunar lander sprouts the first seedlings on the moon

China lunar lander sprouts the first seedlings on the moon

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https://www.cnet.com/news/china-lunar-lander-sprouts-first-cotton-seeds-on-the-moon/

A team from Chongqing University in China developed a sealed biosphere habitat stocked with seeds, fruit fly eggs and yeast that it hoped would create a mini-ecosystem. So far, the cotton seeds are the only ones to sprout. The experiment also contains potato and oilseed rape seeds.

China's state-run Xinhua News announced the sprouts Tuesday and posted a series of progress images covering the course of nine days and showing the seedlings reaching up inside their habitat. Chang'e 4 touched down in early January.