Malachite-based mineral deposit on display at Biosphere 2. Biosphere 2, near Tucson, Arizona, was developed in the late 1980s for research into how na

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Malachite-based mineral deposit on display at Biosphere 2. Biosphere 2, near Tucson, Arizona, was developed in the late 1980s for research into how natural environments create habitable conditions for human sustainability ('biosphere 1' being the Earth).

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