Since 2011, retired computer programmer Carol Roullard has been taking photos of crystals and other objects under a microscope. The above image, which she tweeted earlier this month, is a photo of a ...

Meteorites are fragments of asteroids which find their way to Earth as shooting stars ... The scientists can then analyze the organic particles in this lamella under an electron microscope (right ...

A thin-sectioned specimen of the Allende Meteorite, photographed by Jeff Barton using cross-polarized light, with a DSLR attached to a petrographic microscope. The innards of a meteorite that fell ...

Two meteorites found in the Sahara in 2023 might be from Mercury, a study suggests, but doubts remain due to how little is ...

Several complete and broken chondrules glow in technicolor in this thin slice of meteorite viewed under a 30x microscope. Chondrules are 4.56 billion years old and may represent the first solid ...

Designer/builder Franz Baudenbacher holding sample of Martian meteorite ALH84001 next to scanning stage of URSSM. Photo source: Neil Brake, Vanderbilt University.

Meteorite analysis Illustration showing how an extremely thin slice of the Winchcombe meteorite, targeting a region-of-interest rich in carbon-containing chemicals, can be precisely extracted for ...

Unique Vanderbilt magnetic microscope was used to determine that the interior of the famous Martian meteorite (ALH84001) remained at temperatures below 104 degrees F during its trip from Mars to ...

It happened in 1954, when a napping woman in Sylacauga, Ala., was badly bruised by an 8.5-pound meteorite (the term for a meteor that makes it to the our planet’s surface) that fell through her ...

Cosmic building blocks of life discovered through the electron microscope Date: January 29, 2024 Source: University of Münster Summary: Meteorites are fragments of asteroids which find their way ...

SEM-BSE (back-scattered electron) micrographs at low magnification of typical organic particle morphologies in Winchcombe. Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-45064-x ...