Elemental Map of GEMS by Transmission Electron Microscope (IMAGE)

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Elemental Map of GEMS by Transmission Electron Microscope

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Elemental map of tiny glassy grains (blue with green specks) inside a cometary-type interplanetary dust particle. Carbonaceous material (red) holds these objects together. This image was collected from a thin section of the particle using a scanning transmission electron microscope.

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Hope Ishii, University of Hawai'i (reproduced with permission from <i>PNAS</i>)

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