For the first time, Chinese scientists taking part in a 400-day South Pole research expedition can eat fresh vegetables grown regularly on-site. The researchers can eat fresh vegetables grown regularly on-site, Wang Zheng, the grower who came home last month after the mission in Antarctica, said.
Growing vegetables in Antarctica reminded him of The Martian, a sci-fi movie about an astronaut who survives alone on Mars by eating potatoes he grows there, Wang said yesterday from his home in Shangrao, Jiangxi province.