COTTON SPROUTS ON THE MOON

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• The news comes nearly two weeks after China’s Chang’e-4 mission became the first human-made vehicle to land softly on the far side of the Moon. Chang’e-4, which consists of a lunar lander and rover, is carrying multiple experiments and technologies to study the Moon’s terrain.
  
  
• The lander also has a 3-kilogram canister that contains six different biological species that are intended to germinate and grow. Those include seeds for cotton, rapeseed, potato, and Arabidopsis. Fruit fly eggs and yeast are also in the canister.
  
  
• Soon after Chang’e-4’s landing, the biology experiment was turned on and given water. Now, China has released pictures which show sprouting cotton plants.