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Scientists on aircraft gathering samples of microorganisms

Terry Lathem, a graduate student at Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, takes notes aboard a NASA DC-8 aircraft gathering samples of microorganisms in the atmosphere.

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