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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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'Tis great news fer the Irish!