ISS Tentacle Photo Turns Out to Be an Early Purple Potato
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A NASA astronaut’s social-media photo of a tentacled growth on the ISS sparked jokes, but Don Pettit explains it’s an early purple potato growing in his improvised space-garden terrarium, part of ongoing research into cultivating crops in microgravity for future long-duration missions.
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