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The eerie purple orb freaking out social media is actually Spudnik-1, a homegrown ISS potato pointing to NASA's plans for food on Moon and Mars trips.
The internet did a double-take after NASA Astronaut Don Pettit shared a photo from the International Space Station that looked, at first glance, like something from a sci-fi movie. The purple, alien-looking object appeared to have a tentaclelike sprout on one side and a strange patch on the other,