View of microscopic Martian dust particles.
Here ya go America, this is what your tax dollars earned!
Excerpt taken from Dan Whitcomb's article in msnbc.com:
'The Phoenix lander has returned the highest-resolution pictures ever taken of dust and sand on the surface of another planet as it prepares for its primary mission of searching for signs of life on Mars, NASA scientists said on Thursday.
The pictures were taken through an optical microscope and showed particles — some as small as one-tenth the diameter of a human hair — that were collected on a slide when Phoenix touched down on May 25 at the arctic circle of the Red Planet, kicking up dust from the surface.
"We have images showing the diversity of mineralogy on Mars at a scale that is unprecedented in planetary exploration," Michael Hecht of the U.S. space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said at a media briefing.'
The pictures were taken through an optical microscope and showed particles — some as small as one-tenth the diameter of a human hair — that were collected on a slide when Phoenix touched down on May 25 at the arctic circle of the Red Planet, kicking up dust from the surface.
"We have images showing the diversity of mineralogy on Mars at a scale that is unprecedented in planetary exploration," Michael Hecht of the U.S. space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said at a media briefing.'
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