How Will Water Flow on the Moon?

UL Lafayette researcher studies how water behaves on the moon to help future lunar farming

University of Louisiana at Lafayette biologist Karl Hasenstein explores how lunar gravity affects water behavior, offering key insights for designing efficient irrigation systems to grow plants on the moon, crucial for sustaining future lunar habitats during extended space missions.

Water on the Moon behaves differently than expected, and that...

New research shows that lunar gravity changes how water flows, raising fresh challenges for anyone hoping to grow plants on the Moon. Water may be far harder to control on the Moon than future settlers can afford to ignore. Based on an experiment involving Florida Institute of Technology, 4SPACE LLC, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and NASA Ames Research Center, shows that reduced lunar gravity changes the way liquids move, with surfac…

How Will Water Flow on the Moon?

Growing fresh food on the Moon is going to be crucial if astronauts there are ever going to eat anything other than freeze-dried rations. Since husbanding animals on the lunar surface is…difficult (to put it mildly), most mission planners believe that plants are the solution. But we still don’t entirely understand how one of the most fundamental materials to plant growth, water, operates under partial gravity. A team of researchers, led by Karl …