Alien orbits you plied,
While we vicariously spied
A distant globe …
Oh, tough little probe!
It’s been a wonderful ride.
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This is one in a series of posts by Katherine Allen, a researcher in geochemistry and paleoclimate at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University.
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