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> In 2013, George Kourounis became the first person to set foot at the bottom of the crater;[5] he was gathering soil samples for the Extreme Microbiome Project
by Mistletoe 3y ago
> In 2013, George Kourounis became the first person to set foot at the bottom of the crater;[5] he was gathering soil samples for the Extreme Microbiome Project.
The exploration part of this article is fascinating. At my previous job we looked in soil for drug producing fungi and I would have loved to have worked on a sample from there.