Getting Granular (IMAGE)

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Getting Granular

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This energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry (EDS) map of tiny glassy grains (blue with green specks) inside a cometary-type interplanetary dust particle was produced using the FEI TitanX microscope at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry. Carbonaceous material (red) holds these objects together.

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(Credit: Hope Ishii/University of Hawaii; Berkeley Lab; reproduced with permission from PNAS)

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