Rocks and Dust from Comet Wild 2 (IMAGE)

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Rocks and Dust from Comet Wild 2

Caption

Three larger rocks, each containing several crystals, from comet Wild 2 are shown on the left of this image in cross-section, as imaged by an electron microscope. Fine-grained dust from the comet, still embedded in the aerogel it was captured in, is shown at right. All images are at the same scale; 5 micrometer scale bar is shown.

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R. Ogliore (Univ. of Hawaii) and Z. Gainsforth (Univ. of California, Berkeley).

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