Team Testing CT Scanners on Extraterrestrial Objects (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Team Testing CT Scanners on Extraterrestrial Objects

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NDE Materials Scientist/Engineer Justin Jones (right) holds a pristine lava rock containing a zeolite crystal. Goddard Chief Scientist James Garvin holds in his right hand an impact melt breccia from the Elgygytygyn impact crater in Siberia and in his left hand a hawaiite with green olivine crystals. The background graphic shows the CT scans that reveal the internal structure and unique minerology of the lava rock from Earth's newest land -- Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai in the Kingdom of Tonga.

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Credits: NASA/W. Hrybyk

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