Weather.com - Camille Mann and Edecio Martinez, 8/09/13
Microscope images of a thin section of a meteorite. The Allende meteorites fell in 1969 at Pueblito de Allende, Mexico. (Flickr/Jeff Barton)
Don’t let the dull exterior of meteorites fool you. On the inside they hold a kaleidoscope of color.
A thin section of a Vaca Muerta meteorite. The left half of the slide, along a diagonal arc from upper left to lower right, is part of a large chondrule that has been melted and then shocked after recrystallization. (Flickr/Jeff Barton)
Jeff Barton, photographer and director of sciences for an educational non-profit, decided to see what was inside the mystical space rocks he had been collecting.
Micrograph made using cross-polarized light of a meteorite thin section. (Flickr/Jeff Barton)
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