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85 Experiments Show Potatoes Can Survive In Lunar Solar (With Lots of Help)

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BeauHD @ Slashdot 1 place · today 07:00 EDT

Experiments Show Potatoes Can Survive In Lunar Solar (With Lots of Help)

sciencehabit shares a report from Science.org: In The Martian, fictional astronaut Mark Watney survives the wasteland of Mars by growing potatoes in lunar soil -- with a bit of help from human poop. The idea may not be so far-fetched. In a preprint posted this month on bioRxiv, researchers show potatoes can indeed grow in the equivalent of Moon dust, though they need a lot of help from compost found on Earth. To make the discovery, scientists first had to re-create lunar regolith -- the loose, powdery layer

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