NASA Really Trying to Grow Potatoes on Mars

PAMPAS DE LA JOYA,Peru--As humans prepare to blast off to Mars,there is still the question of what they'll eat onces they colonize the red planet.Scientidts who have travelled here to the Peruvian desert say they have the answer.Potatoes.

Researchers at the Lima Based International Potato Center and Scientists at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are studying which type of potato could be best suited for extraterrestrial farming to support a human settlement on Mars.If everything goes as planned,the Martian colonies could be munching on French fries,chips and mashed potatoes one day.

"It's got to be a Martian potato that tastes good,"Julio Valdivia Silva,a Peruvian astrobiologist with NASA,said while surveying the reddish brown desert on a trip to collect soil,"It's a big challenge to take a living organism somewhere else,We've never done this before."

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