Asteroid 4 Vesta (right) and a colorized backscattered electron image of the Kapoeta meteorite (left), a howardite thought to originate from Vesta’s surface. The difference in scale between these two images is 100 million.
Kapoeta/Vesta
Laboratory for Space Sciences @ Wash U Physics
“Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?”