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"... If they grow successfully, the potatoes will then be planted in a simulator that factors in the atmospheric conditions on Mars. ..."

Will it also simulate the cosmic rays Mars has to endure and can these rays be duplicated?

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It won't be an exact duplicate, but we know what the radiation flux is, there's no reason we couldn't subject them to the same overall level of radiation.

May I bathe in these rays and become and X-Man or Fantastic Fifth?

The rays are ionizing and will smash apart the DNA molecules in living cells.

no ,you will dead .it is that simple

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