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A Stunning Look Inside Meteorites (PHOTOS) [1]

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Submitted by Rain on Mon, 08/12/2013 - 05:12

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)

Photos and more: Weather.com [2]

 

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