Carbon-rich Fragment (IMAGE)

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Carbon-rich Fragment

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The carbon-rich fragment of the material comets are built from is colored red in this scanning electron microscope image. The scale bar shows its size.

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Image credit: Larry Nittler, Carnegie Institution for Science

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