On January 12, China announced that cotton seeds aboard its Chang’e 4 lunar lander had sprouted — marking a historic, but short lived, first. The seedling promptly died that night, as the biosphere failed to insulate the experiment from the intense cold.
Image courtesy of Chongqing University
Watch China’s Chang’e 4 landing below:
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