News (2026年3月29日号)

With lunar missions looming, scientists grow chickpeas in ‘moon dirt’

Chickpeas grown in a mixture that included lunar soil simulant inside a climate-controlled growth chamber at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, U.S., seen in this photograph released on March 5, 2026. (Handout via Reuters)

Chickpeas grown in a mixture that included lunar soil simulant inside a climate-controlled growth chamber at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, U.S., seen in this photograph released on March 5, 2026. (Handout via Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Scientists in extraterrestrial agriculture have grown chickpeas in dirt of simulated lunar soil, a step toward enabling astronauts on moon missions to produce food. Researchers grew harvestable chickpeas in soil mixtures containing up to 75 percent lunar simulant, using seeds...

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