After conquering the dark side of the moon, China planned to plant vegetables there

News24xx.com - Last week, China became the first country to successfully land a spacecraft on the dark side of the moon. Now, they wanted to try to plant cabbage and potatoes there. Successfully landing Chang'e-4, China now has a spacecraft that has landed on the far side of the moon's surface. There the astronauts have various missions and tasks to be carried out, one of which is trying to build an ecosystem by planting vegetables.

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Weather reported, January 7th 2019, the plane carried cans of potato seeds, flowers, silkworms, to arabdopsis, a type of plant that has genes like cabbages. Later this can will be placed in a small tube that will be exposed to sunlight. The farthest part of the moon makes the temperature there more stable, so according to NASA, it is possible to grow potatoes and other vegetations.

After placing cans in a tube, these plants will provide oxygen, which helps silkworms emerge from their cocoons. And their cocoons can produce carbon dioxide and be a fertilizer to help plant growth. "Our experiments may be able to accumulate knowledge about the moon, and life on the moon" said Liu Hanlong as one of the researchers from the University of Chongqing, China.

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One of the biggest challenges of Chinese astronauts is that they must fight the extreme weathers on the moon, where the air temperature will drop from 106 degrees Celsius to 143 degrees Celsius at night.

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