Green Group discussion

BIOSTRESS is a new module which will be attached to the International Space Station to look down on the plants of Earth and measure how much water they use and transpire at different times.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.ph...

An app called Globe Observer can be downloaded for helping citizen scientists report real world sighting of various sorts to NASA. All around the world, for instance, NASA would like to know what the clouds look like from beneath as satellites only see them from above.
These real world observations will help tie in with the work of the module observing plant habitats.
Other observations which can be made include temperatures and even locations of mosquito larvae sites.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.ph...

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.ph...

NASA brought back soil samples from the Moon. Now scientists are permitted to grow plants in that soil. The experiment was carefully controlled with comparison samples, and will be studied right down to the genetic level. If we establish a colony on the Moon, we will need to use Lunar soil.

https://phys.org/news/2022-05-scienti...


More information: Anna-Lisa Paul, Plants grown in Apollo lunar regolith present stress-associated transcriptomes that inform prospects for lunar exploration, Communications Biology (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s42003-022-03334-8. www.nature.com/articles/s42003-022-03...
Journal information: Communications Biology
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