Soil is essential for Earth's ecosystem, helping to store energy, regulate energy flow, and reduce the impact of natural and human activities. To better understand soil's complex role, scientists are creating a global database called MONet, which gathers detailed information about soil structure and composition. This database will help improve models of Earth's systems. A key challenge is analyzing tiny soil structures from soil samples, a process that could take thousands of hours manually. To solve this, researchers at Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory developed an automated workflow to quickly and efficiently handle this task, speeding up the creation of the MONet database.