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Jess Atkin: Space Biologist Enriches Soil and the Lives of Fellow Veterans

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By Alka Tripathy-Lang
| AGU's Eos
Space biologist Jess Atkin often finds herself talking about The Martian, the movie (based on the book by Andy Weir) in which Matt Damon plays fictional astronaut and botanist Mark Watney, marooned on Mars and surviving on his feces-fertilized potatoes. Though Atkin doesn’t nourish her plants in quite the same way, she does consider how to use microbes to turn lunar regolith into a healthy soil suitable for crops. Atkin’s interest in plants and the Moon took root during her childhood in Utah.
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Ancient Subduction May Have Seeded Today’s Critical Mineral Deposits

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By Alka Tripathy-Lang
| AGU's Eos
The weirdest volcano in the world may be Tanzania’s towering Ol Doinyo Lengai, an active peak that squeezes out a strange, low-temperature lava called carbonatite. Carbonatites are composed of more than 50% carbonate minerals, the same substances that form the ocean’s reefs. At Ol Doinyo Lengai, they are key components of the coldest lava on the planet. Carbonatites are found on every continent and range in age from today-ish years old (in Tanzania) to about 3 billion years old (in Greenland).
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On the ground or in the atmosphere? Swarm satellites help characterize and pinpoint destructive events

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By Alka Tripathy-Lang
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