Researchers have demonstrated that the main parameter for growing potatoes is the correct watering and adding nutrients. They were able to grow the tubers inside the case from the microprobe system CubeSat, which was supported by the composition of the Martian soil and atmosphere, pressure, and other parameters.

Experts say that best showed potatoes, bred for cultivation in saline lowlands.

Thus, scientists were able to verify one of the elements of the novel Andy Weir of "the Martian," in which astronaut mark Watney was lost on the red planet. In the story, Watney built a greenhouse, where he collected the first Mars crop of potatoes. As fertilizer used their own excrement, the water received from the unused hydrogen rocket fuel and oxygen from carbon dioxide.

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