Sand Like You've Never Seen It Before

Friday, October 2, 2015 - 15:50 in Astronomy & Space

To the naked eye, sand looks pretty uniform. Tiny beige specks of varying shades, collectively covering beaches and shores and deserts. But when you peek at it through a microscope, all of that changes. Gary Greenburg, a research affiliate at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy, created a 3D high-definition light microscope in the 1990s, and he's been capturing fascinating sand close-ups since then. The Secrets Of The Sand: A Journey Into the Amazing Microscopic World of Sand Courtesy Quarto Publishing Now he's put out a book of sand imagery, along with colleagues Carol Kiely, an adjunct professor at Lehigh University, and Kate Clover, a gallery program manager at the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul. Kiely worked with NASA in 2008 to examine lunar dust particles collected during the Apollo...

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