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What's this? Hieroglyphic of a hockey goal? Bottom of a clay pot?   It's an SEM image of a NanoSIMS mount containing presolar graphite grains (1-20 µm across) from the Orgueil meteorite. The grid in the center is pressed into gold foil.
(Image courtesy of Manavi Jadhav and Ryan Zeigler)

SEM: scanning electron microscope
SIMS: secondary-ion mass spectrometry


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