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NASA experiment simulates growing potatoes on MARS: Space spuds could help us colonise the Red Planet

A team of scientists working with NASA is now attempting to make that science fiction into a science fact.

The space agency is working with the International Potato Center (CIP) in Peru to grow taters in conditions as similar to the surface of the Red Planet as possible.

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