Thursday, 17 March 2016

NASA wants to grow potatoes on Mars

A team of scientists working with NASA is now attempting to make that science fiction into a science fact . According to mirror News, 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. The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial nightshade Solanum tuberosum L. The word "potato" may refer either to the plant itself or to the edible tuber.
Potatoes are America's most used and favorite vegetable. They can be boiled, baked, fried, and micro waved, steamed, roasted, mashed, and placed in salads.