Researchers have already had success growing beans using simulated lunar highland regolith as a nutrient source.
"This work is essential for future long-term lunar exploration," Malgorzata Holynska, ESA materials and processes engineer, said in the statement."Achieving a sustainable presence on the moon will involve using local resources and gaining access to nutrients present in lunar regolith with the potential to help cultivate plants. The current study represents a proof of principle using available lunar regolith simulants, opening the way to more detailed research in future.
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 into a hydroponic greenhouse where plants grow vertically onThe Solsys Mining team has already had success growing beans using simulated lunar highland regolith as a nutrient source, which proves hopeful for maintaining a long-term
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