The Los Alamos National Laboratories has decided that it is going to use synthetic Chatham emeralds instead of real emeralds because they are chemically cleaner. These emeralds are going to be use on Mars to calibrate systems used to find trace elements on the planet. The emeralds are going to be moved around the planet on a buggy now under construction at the Houston Space Center. Chatham Created Emerald, based in San Francisco, plan to have these synthetic gemstomes ready for the 2009 mission to Mars.
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