Regolith

Regolith can be used to create fertilizer when growing plants on the Moon

(ORDO NEWS) — Sooner or later, the settlers on the moon will have to become farmers. ESA‘s new Discovery project, led by the Norwegian company Solsys Mining, is exploring the possibility of using regolith to fertilize plants. The good news is that analysis of lunar samples brought back to Earth shows the presence of sufficient amounts of essential minerals for plant growth, in addition to nitrogen compounds. The bad news…