Illustration Photo: For deserts and areas with low temperatures, as well as space missions to the Moon and Mars, a closed greenhouse of weather, sun and season allows independent harvests and less water consumption and the abandonment of pesticides and insecticides. With the EDEN-ISS project, such a model greenhouse of the future will be put into long-term testing for one year under Antarctic extreme conditions at the end of 2017. (credits: DLR German Aerospace Center / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0))

Illustration Photo: For deserts and areas with low temperatures, as well as space missions to the Moon and Mars, a closed greenhouse of weather, sun and season allows independent harvests and less water consumption and the abandonment of pesticides and insecticides. With the EDEN-ISS project, such a model greenhouse of the future will be put into long-term testing for one year under Antarctic extreme conditions at the end of 2017. (credits: DLR German Aerospace Center / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0))