Is it possible to grow plants on the moon, or another planet?

Question

just wondering

Answer 1

if i was into space agriculture, i would let you know immediately!

but here on Jupiter, my computer is a bit slow. but my purple daffodils are doing wonderful and you should just see my orange glaciarites!

Answer 2

no there is no chance to growing a plant...........bez there no oxgen

Answer 3

May be we can grow plants on moon by creating a atmosphere needed for plants in a green house manner.But it will be made possible only in the future.But first we have to have a permanent settlement in moon or other planets.Let hope for the best.

Answer 4

I don't think there's any terrestrial planet which could reasonably survive and grow naturally on the surface of the Moon. The Moon has essentially no atmosphere, meaning that any plant on the surface would be subjected to both hard vacuum and temperature extremes (being alternately frozen and boiled every month as the Moon rotates). Very few terrestrial life forms could naturally survive such conditions.

However, it would definitely be possible to grow plants inside a sealed artificial environment on the Moon. Any long-term human base on the Moon would probably have a greenhouse of some kind to grow plants in, both for recycling oxygen and for food. Just about any kind of plant could be grown inside a building, provided the environmental conditions were regulated properly (right amount of light, heat and moisture), although large trees likely wouldn't be feasible at first due to their size. Luner colonists would most likely grow something along the lines of lettuce, grapes, corn, potatoes, something that's small and edible and easy to grow.

On other planets, it's hard to say, and it might depend more on the plant than on the planet. Any planet with enough water, the right temperatures, and a reasonably similar atmosphere to ours (in both density and chemical composition) could probably support some simple photosynthesizing life forms such as blue-green algae, lichens, or other types of algae. More complex plants, including our various food crops, would have to wait until the planetary environment was modified to be more like our own. It is also conceivable for a planet to exist so much like our own that just about any of our plants could be grown there, however such planets would be EXTREMELY rare (perhaps a handful in the entire Universe, quite likely none at all other than the Earth), and it isn't very realistic to find one in the foreseeable future. And at any rate, any sufficiently hospitable planet would also be fairly likely to have its own native life forms, which may cause trouble for any life forms we try to take there (the inverse, although less likely, is also quite possible).

Answer 5

impossible on moon

may be possible on some planet like ours

Answer 6

You could grow them in a space station, but not on the moon itself.  There isn't any atmosphere!

Answer 7

The moon does not have the proper soil and it has no atmosphere or water.  Also the temperature varies 200 degrees celcius from day to night.

If there was another planet like earth, then yeah.  But there is no other planet that could grow plants.  Mars would be the most likely candidate, but even it can't grow plants.  The soil is lacking in nutrients, there is not enough sunlight, it's too cold, there is no liquid water, and the atmosphere is too thin.

Answer 8

i guess it is possible.

it is because there are many places where scientists have found certain circumstances where plants can be grown. e.g. Europa, mars. but the problem is that all circumstances are not up to the mark. though you can obviously grow them in space crafts or the base camps