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Ep. 380 - Learning to Grow Plants on the Moon

In Defense of Plants Podcast

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The Chemistry of Lunar Soils

The lunar dust that's been on the surface of the moon has interacted with not only cosmic rays, solar wind, and that deposits all kinds of interesting things in ther it's got very sharp glass. They have this stuff called nanopas iron, which doesn't basically exist on the earth. Everything on the earth has been weathered to one degree or another. That stuff has never been weathered at all. So its sort of extra terrestrially strange to any biology trying to interact with it. Weird.

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