Segons un article de BBC Mundo, l'agència espacial americana, NASA, i el Centre Internacional de la Papa (CIP), del Perú, estan portant a terme experiments comuns per avaluar la possibilitat de cultivar el tubercle peruà al terra marcià.
America's space agency, NASA, and the Peruvian International Potato Center (CIP), are carrying out joint experiments to test the possibility of growing the Peruvian tuber in Martian soil, according to a new report by BBC World. Regarding the nutritional qualities of the potato, CIP says: