ISS Photo of Purple Potato Turns Out to be a Space Garden Marvel
TL;DR
A photo by NASA astronaut Don Pettit from the International Space Station that looked like a purple, tentacled egg sparked online speculation of an alien object, but Pettit later explained it was a purple potato grown during Expedition 72 as part of space gardening, a nod to The Martian and the future of long‑duration missions.
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