Researchers have successfully separated the beneficial mineral nutrients in the regolith from the harmful ones.
The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Norwegian agricultural company Solsys Mining have developed a new way to process lunar soil to create fertilizer. This was reported by Space.
Previous experiments using lunar samples have shown that plants can grow on lunar soil. However, regolith does not contain a certain amount of nitrogen compounds and becomes dense when wet, making it difficult for plants to establish and grow.
In doing so, the scientists developed a way to grow plants in nutrient-rich water instead of soil by extracting essential minerals from the regolith.
That is, this the method involves directly feeding the roots of the plant with water rich in nutrients obtained from the local soil, but without the participation of the latter.
In theory, the regolith would be passed through a sorter to extract and process valuable mineral nutrients, which would then be dissolved in water and fed to a hydroponic greenhouse.
A group of experts has been successful in growing beans.
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