March 6, 2011

Professor Richard B. Hoover, an expert on carbonaceous meteorites and an astrobiologist in the service of NASA

Bacteria from another world were discovered in the meteorite

Scientists have for the first time been able to identify the precise spatial arrangement of the individual atoms in a nanoparticle. The yellow dots represent the atoms that make up a silver nanoparticle that are two nanometers in diameter.

Atomic resolution of XNUMXD nanoparticles