Microscope View of Chrome Spinel (IMAGE)

Field Museum

Microscope View of Chrome Spinel

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This is an electron microscope image of a polished cross section of chrome spinel from a fossil micrometeorite that scientists believe comes from the asteroid 4 Vesta.

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Credit: © Philipp Heck, The Field Museum.

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