/technologies/industrial-automation-space/b/blog/posts/cotton-seeds-sprouted-on-the-moon-then-stop-growing(Image Credit: China National Space Administration/Xinhua News Agency/AP) It didn’t last long. Bitter cold and a long night ended the plant’s growth. Day and night cycles on the moon are around two weeks long each. The plant sprouted and grew fo...en-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/technologies/industrial-automation-space/b/blog/posts/cotton-seeds-sprouted-on-the-moon-then-stop-growingFri, 08 Mar 2019 10:19:55 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:9bae5f45-649c-4e16-b72c-2b7c4e746239dubbie1<p>Maybe we could do an Element14 goes to the moon challenge. Or perhaps just into the stratosphere, or more realistically, just slightly higher than the roof of my house. I was once involved in a small project to measure the acceleration and de-acceleration of a water powered rocket. It might be fun to do something like that again. It was in the early days of solid state accelerometers and used a PIC to record the data which it would then transfer to MATLAB and plot the acceleration graph. I&#39;m sure we could do something as exciting with newer accelerometers and Arduinos. I&#39;ve still got one of those rockets - I wonder if it still works?</p><p>Dubbie</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=6616&AppID=141&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">