Kapoeta/Vesta
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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.
Laboratory for Space Sciences @ Wash U Physics
“Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?”
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.