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missions icon LRO 18. 6. 2009 Ongoing
missions icon Chang´e 5-T1 23. 10. 2014 Ongoing
missions icon Chang´e 4 7. 12. 2018 Ongoing
missions icon Chandrayaan-2 22. 7. 2019 Ongoing
missions icon CAPSTONE 28. 6. 2022 Ongoing
missions icon Danuri 4. 8. 2022 Ongoing
missions icon OMOTENASHI 16. 11. 2022 Ongoing
missions icon Artemis I 16. 11. 2022 Ended: Success
missions icon Lunar IceCube 16. 11. 2022 Ongoing
missions icon LunIR 16. 11. 2022 Ongoing
missions icon LunaH-Map 16. 11. 2022 Ongoing
missions icon ArgoMoon 16. 11. 2022 Ongoing
missions icon Hakuto-R 1 11. 12. 2022 Ongoing
missions icon Emirates Lunar Mission 11. 12. 2022 Ongoing
missions icon Lunar Flashlight 11. 12. 2022 Ongoing

calendar icon16. 05 2022
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Plants grow for the first time in lunar regolith

Scientists grew plants in the lunar regolith for the first time ever. They used samples from three different Apollo missions (11, 12, 17). The plants used were Arabidopsis thaliana (thale cress, mouse-ear cress). After 16 days it was clear that plants grew smaller in regolith from regions exposed to cosmic radiation for longer time.

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calendar icon13. 04 2022
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A South Pole–Aitken impact origin of the lunar compositional asymmetry

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Translucent glass globules on the Moon

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Carbon Dioxide Cold Traps on the Moon

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The search for lunar mantle rocks exposed on the surface of the Moon

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