GROWING POTATOES ON MARS

Farming Hopes on Mars!
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TAG Food, Mars, Mars mission, NASA, Peru, potatoes
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)            To Grow Potatoes In Peru To Test If They Can Be Grown On Mars

By Katrina Pascual, Tech Times
Scientists are testing 100 potato varieties to see if they’re suitable for growing on Mars. The experiment in the dry, arid Atacama Desert will help determine the viability of food cultivation and supply on the Red Planet.
NASA is now experimenting growing potatoes in Peru’s dry, desolate Atacama Desert to test if they are fit to grow in the similar environment of Mars. Will these tubers be the right stuff for planting on the Red Planet?
The U.S. space agency will start the pioneering tests together with the International Potato Center (CIP) of Lima next month, cultivating a hundred out of 4,500 registered varieties already rigorously evaluated for the extreme conditions on Mars.

Of the selected potato varieties, 40 are native to the Andes Mountains and are conditioned for varying ecological zones, sudden climate changes, and reproduction in rocky, arid landscape. The remaining 60 are genetically modified for survival with little water and salt, as well as immunity to viruses.
The final criterion: the potatoes should grow well on Mars and in huge quantities.

Peruvian NASA scientist Julio Valdivia Silva said they are “almost 100 percent certain” that many of the candidates will pass the strict tests of the project, which is also hoped to address malnutrition and hunger on Earth as they can grow in harsh, trying conditions.
“We must be prepared for the future,” added CIP scientist Jan Kreuze, who was pertaining to elements such as desertification, increasing temperatures, and high salt levels in soil.
Two hundred pounds of the potatoes will be transported to a CIP laboratory in Peru, simulating the intricate, carbon dioxide-rich, extremely UV-radiated environment of Mars. Definitive results are expected within a year or two, with an unmanned Mars mission expected in over five years from now.
Valdivia Silva added that they will try aeroponics, which is used to cultivate plants without the presence of soil, if the current plan does not work.

According to experts, the soil on Mars could serve as appropriate for food cultivation – but not without plenty of challenges.
Wageningen University professor Leo Marcelis, a “Mars One” project advisor, said in the past that one issue would be the low gravity, which makes it difficult for water to run downwards and hinder proper gas exchange in plants. Mars’ temperature is low, barely with any atmosphere and with much less light than Earth.
Last Valentine’s Day, astronaut Scott Kelly harvested zinnias aboard the International Space Station – again working on the possibility of humans growing their own food for Mars and deep space missions.
NASA remains optimistic that testing flowering pants, longer-term fruit crops such as tomatoes and peppers, and potatoes will lead to sustainable food production systems as the agency is moving toward long-duration exploration and the much-heralded human journey to Mars.

OUR SCIENTIST ARE TRYING TO PROVE THAT THERE IS HOPE ON MARS

This is interesting to know that there is a possibility of farming on another planet, Mars!

I am excited and will be more happy if this experiments will work out perfectly but I may want to dread the consequences of what may happen if one eat such Potatoes, although our scientist are saying it will safe to eat.

Here is the real gist; If that is possible, then if there is anything in your life that you think is impossible then start thinking the science way. While Jesus was on Earth, he proved to us to be a scientist from another planet, Heaven.

“And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with clay, And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed and came seeing.

Jesus used clay his spittle and clay to create a brand new eyes for someone who never had eyes. That is beyond science anyway but He did it. DO IT ACCORDING TO GOD’S WILL, HIS EXPERIMENTS ARE FAR BETTER (and kudos to our scientists, great job, don’t you think?!)

AmenRadio…Keep On Believing

By; Adedeji Oshigbesan