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China grows potatoes on the moon's surface

Cotton sprouts seen close-up under a protective cover on board the Moon lander.

China's space agency has announced that the cotton seeds it sent to the Moon on its Chang’e 4 lander have sprouted. This is the first time organic material has been grown on the Moon.

The Chinese space agency (CNSA) said that it put the seeds in a kind of hibernation for their journey and they were awoken by the probe watering them.

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