The vegetables were grown without soil, daylight or poisons as part of a project designed to help astronauts cultivate fresh food on other planets.
Le HT Correspondent | Associated Press, Berlin
UPDATE ON APR 05, 2018 06:38 PM IST
Scientists in Antarctica have grown their first crop of vegetables without soil, daylight or toxins as part of a project designed to help astronauts cultivate fresh food on other planets.
Researchers at Neumayer III Station in Germany say they have grown 3.6 kilograms of salad greens, 18 cucumbers and 70 radishes inside a high-tech greenhouse as the outside temperature dropped below -20 degrees Celsius.
The German Aerospace Center DLR, which is coordinating the project, said Thursday that scientists hope to harvest 4-5 kilograms of fruits and vegetables each week.
While NASA has grown green on the International Space Station, Daniel Schubert at DLR says the Antarctic project aims to produce a wider range of vegetables that could one day grow on Mars or the moon.
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