An artificial, materially closed ecological system. Biosphere 2 was originally meant to demonstrate the viability of closed ecological systems to support and maintain human life in Outer Space. In addition to the several biomes and living quarters for people, there was an agricultural area and work space to study the interactions between humans, farming, technology and the rest of nature as a new kind of laboratory for the study of the global ecology.
Its seven biome areas were rainforest, ocean with coral reef, mangrove wetlands, savannah grassland, fog desert and agricultural system and human habitat living spaces, laboratories and workshops. Below the ground was an extensive part of the technical infrastructure. The second closure experiment achieved total food sufficiency and did not require injection of oxygen.
The Lunar Greenhouse, a second prototype of the Controlled Environment Agriculture Center which seeks to understand how to grow vegetables on the Moon or Mars by developing a bioregenerative life support system which recycles and purifies water through plant transpiration / MELiSSA like system.
a vertical farming project to be built in Biosphere 2's west lung, in collaboration with the private company Civic Farms, in an effort to develop an indoor plant growth cycle with LED lamps configured to specific wavelengths aimed at the goal of increasing water efficiency, producing zero farm runoff, with no pests or pesticides, and zero effect from external weather conditions.
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