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Adam Sarafian holding a loaded sample disc.

Adam Sarafian holding a loaded sample disc.
Adam Sarafian holding a loaded sample disc.
Adam Sarafian holding a loaded sample disc.
Adam Sarafian holding a loaded sample disc.
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Doucette, Jayne H.
Adam Sarafian holding a loaded sample disc.
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10/22/2014
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Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 51, No. 2, pg. 104:
A closeup of meteorite samples from the asteroid 4-Vesta after analysis in the Northeast National Ion Microbe Facility at WHOI.
Image Of the Day caption:
WHOI scientists are known for the fact that many of them address some of the most immediate and pressing questions of our time. MIT-WHOI graduate student Adam Sarafian, however, is asking a question so old that it appears in many creation myths: How did Earth get its water? Here, Sarafian holds a sample of a meteorite loaded into a disc and ready for analysis in the Northeast National Ion Microprobe Facility at WHOI. His work is strengthening the link between Earth's water and minerals locked in rocky bodies such as the asteroid Vesta.
Photo by Jayne Doucette
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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