The cooperation of China and Spain to make the Moon a 'green' place, within the Green Moon Project, will be visible at SUTUS 2021, the event on space and underwater tourism that will take place from September 22 to 24 in Les Roches Marbella, coinciding with the Autumnal Equinox.
Chinese and Spanish scientists are studying how they can grow seeds on the Moon where gravity is six times lower than on Earth. To germinate edible plants, vegetables and fruits, and also produce oxygen using in situ resources, to facilitate human life on the lunar surface and atmosphere. This is very important because as we think about establishing future human bases on the Moon or Mars, we need to understand very well how plants will be affected by the different conditions we will encounter there.
Plants will be the greatest allies of the human being in his interplanetary journey and it is for this reason that we must understand very well how the cultivation will be in these places since we will need them.
The engineer from Málaga José María Ortega Hernández, who leads the Green Moon Project team since 2016, will present at SUTUS 2021 what this international project consists of together with Dr. Dan QIU, from the Center for Space Exploration (COSE), under the Ministry of Education of Chongqing University and the Chinese National Space Agency (CNSA), who collaborates with his team in this project of Spanish origin. Both will be in charge of explaining in SUTUS 2021 what this joint initiative consists of. Dan QIU is the biological responsible for the small greenhouse that was sent aboard the Chang'e 4, the Chinese lander that landed on the hidden face of the Moon in January 2019 and the same that germinated the first cotton seed, the first plant on the Moon.
José María Ortega-Hernández - General Coordinator, Green Moon Project