Document Type
Presentation
Publication Date
2002
Abstract
We have sought to optimize conditions for crop yield for many years, but optimal conditions will not always be cost effective. More importantly, environmental control systems routinely fail, and we need to learn how to gracefully recover from these failures.
Failures of the power supply system are among the most common and most detrimental of all system failures. A battery back-up could supply a small amount of power during a power outage, but we need to know how to best utilize the back-up power.
Early in this project, it became clear that the detrimental effects of a power loss could be mitigated by reducing temperature and adding low light. This was so effective that we began to investigate crop production using natural light on the lunar surface. This requires keeping plants alive and healthy during the 14.7 day-long interval on the dark side of the Moon.
Recommended Citation
Chard, Julie K.; Akula, Giridhar; and Bugbee, Bruce, "Failure Analysis: Crop production on the Lunar surface" (2002). NASA. Paper 3.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cpl_nasa/3