Golden Crystals (IMAGE)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Golden Crystals

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Golden crystals of iron sulfide -- pyrite -- contain information about Earth's atmosphere around 2.5 billion years ago.

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Image credit: Matthew Robert Warke

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