Friday, 22 January 2016

Life on Mars? Peruvian team tests if potatoes will grow on Red Planet

Life on Mars? Peruvian team tests if potatoes will grow on Red Planet

Can Peruvian potatoes grow on Mars? Nasa thinks so. In a case of science seemingly imitating Hollywood, the space agency has launched a project to see whether potatoes could grow on the Red Planet, one day allowing a human colony. In a plot that could have been borrowed from the Matt Damon blockbuster The Martian, the US space agency and the International Potato Centre (CIP), a non-profit organisation, will attempt to exploit the expertise...

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