Dust Particle from Comet Wild 2 (IMAGE)
Caption
A transmission electron microscope image (magnified 5,000 times) of a slice of the Inti particle, which NASA’s Stardust spacecraft collected in 2004 and returned to Earth two years later. Preparation of the sample caused some breakage. Scale bar is one micron, or one millionth of a meter.
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Image courtesy University of Chicago
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