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mmcirvin ([personal profile] mmcirvin) wrote2004-01-17 09:57 am

Microscopic imager

I was a little disappointed to learn that the microscopic imager on the Mars rovers isn't really all that microscopic; it's about as powerful as my Nikon in macro mode. I suppose that to do much better you'd really want to remove samples from their original location and put them on something like a microscope stage.