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  • NASA and USGS Team Up to Map Critical Minerals in the American West

    BY Lara Browne
    Technology initially designed to chart other worlds is now helping reveal critical minerals in the American West, crucial to the United States’ renewable energy future. A NASA ER-2 research aircraft recently took to the skies above the desert, scanning the ground for essential minerals as part of the Geological Earth Mapping Experiment (GEMx). The project,...
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