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- Researchers at Texas A&M University found that treated sewage can extract essential nutrients from Moon- and Mars-like dust, enabling a potential sustainable farming system in space.
- The study highlights the importance of managing waste to produce healthy soils in extraterrestrial habitats.
- Future experiments will test growing real crops in these nutrient-rich dust mixes to assess long-term viability for off-world farming.
- The findings are published in ACS Earth and Space Chemistry.
