How the Biosphere 2 experiment changed our understanding of the Earth
Steven Meckler(Credit: Steven Meckler)In the early 1990s, a small team tried to survive in a hermetically sealed space containing replicas of Earth's ecosystems. Their trials and discoveries still have repercussions today.Glittering in the vast expanses of the Arizona desert lies a structure that seems torn straight out of the pages of science fiction.It's seemingly a little capsule of Earth, which is why the structure is called Biosphere 2 – named after our own planet, Biosphere 1.The desolate ...
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