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Professor Mason and his
investigated whether tea plants could grow in lunar and Martian
. He said: "Our experiments reveal that...
such as tea may be cultivated in lunar soil within lunar
, allowing inhabitants of such bases some degree of [independence] and access to fresh
." The researchers planted tea in a
soil they made that is close to the
of soil found on the Moon and on Mars. Fellow researcher Dr Sara Lopez-Gomollon was
with her findings. She said: "The results of this
are very encouraging, as they demonstrate that tea...can be grown in lunar soil." Unfortunately, the tea plants did not grow in the
soil.
