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Studying Microorganisms in the Troposphere

Caption: Georgia Tech graduate student Natasha DeLeon-Rodriguez shows an agar plate on which bacteria taken from tropospheric air samples are growing.

Credit: Georgia Tech Photo: Gary Meek

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