This Purple ‘Alien’ on the ISS is Actually the Future of Mars Missions
Image credit: Don Pettit / NASA. Astronaut Don Pettit not too long ago shared a photograph of a tentacled purple object that set social media ablaze. But this is removed from an extraterrestrial risk; it is really an earthly deal with. The “alien” is really a potato. Specifically, it is a purple tuber nicknamed Spudnik-1,…