Geology
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Martian dust and sand under the microscope
The Mars Phoenix Lander optical microscope captured these
photos of dust and sand grains
, as small as one-tenth the diameter of a human hair. A translucent grain was identified as a possible salt. [
photo, NASA/JPL, UA, Max Planck Inst.
]
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