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Jul 2022
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Ep. 380 - Learning to Grow Plants on the...

IN DEFENSE OF PLANTS
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Can we grow plants in moon soil or regolith? If so, how are they going to respond? These are the kinds of questions Dr. Robert Ferl and his colleagues set out to answer in their latest experiment. Tune in and learn how an emergency rover repair during the last Apollo mission and over a decade of patience and planning have now provided answers as well as gene ... Show More
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