Scientists Successfully Grow Plants In Moon Soil For The First Time

Forthefirsttime，scientistshavegrownplants in soil from the moon collected by Nasa'sApollo astronauts.

Researchers had no idea if anything wouldsprout in the harsh moon dirt and wanted to see

if it could be used to grow food by a new generationoflunarexplorers. Theresultsstunnedthem.

“Holy cow. Plants actually grow in lunarstuff. Are you kidding me？”said Robert Ferl of

theUniversityof Florida'sInstituteof Foodand Agricultural Sciences.

Ferl and his colleagues planted thale cressin moon soil returned by Apollo 11's Neil Arm-

strong and Buzz Aldrin， and other moonwalkers years ago and the seeds sprouted.

Thedownsidewasthatafterthefirstweek， the coarseness and other properties of thelunarsoilstressed thesmall，flowering weedsso much that they grew more slowly than seedlings planted in fake moon dirt from Earth.

Most of the moon plants ended up stunted.Results were published on May in CommunicationsBiology.

科學家首次在美國宇航局阿波羅號宇航員從月球上收集的土壤里種出了植物。（剩余2004字）