Blue Marble Space Institute of Science

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Chemistry

Chemical Gardens as Flow-through Reactors Simulating Natural Hydrothermal Systems

Laura M. Barge^1,2,3, Yeghegis Abedian^1,2, Ivria J. Doloboff^1,2, Jessica E. Nuñez^1,3,4, Michael J. Russell^1,2, Richard D. Kidd¹, Isik Kanik^1,2

¹NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, ²NASA Astrobiology Institute, Icy Worlds, ³Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, ⁴Citrus College

We describe chemical garden formation via injection experiments that allow for laboratory simulations of natural chemical garden systems that form at submarine hydrothermal vents.