Guest ezkerraldean Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 for my masters project i'm playing with a bunch of martian meteorites. took shiny pictures of some thin sections today, thought they were pretty, so i decided to show you guys innit. DIS SHITS FROM MUTHAFUKIN MARS NIGGА! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaosmachine Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 did you steal any? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deepex Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 Holy mother of all things IDM! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaarg Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 How big are these details? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siegecow Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 do you have any idea what spring is like on jupiter and mars? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ezkerraldean Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 How big are these details? ive got 3 thin section samples, theyre about 1cm across each. most of the groundmass crystals are 1/10mm across probably Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ezkerraldean Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 Wow. Are those color swaths from transition metals or something else? Martian blood? Maybe you're studying a murder weapon. nah, the colouring is to do with how polarised light interferes with the structure of the crystal, and depends on the way the plane of the section cuts through the mineral structure too. boring crap like that. most of the minerals in those pictures have pretty much the same composition, colourful and non-colourful. mineralogy is fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sneaksta303 Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 this is fucking bullshit. Misleading thread title deluxe. Thought this was going to be about space crack but nooooo..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ezkerraldean Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 lol i have to grind some mars rock samples up for x-ray flourescence analysis soon. you could probably snort that shit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Calx Sherbet Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 yea, and then probably die Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest abusivegeorge Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 Yeah, well I've been there, beat that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Calx Sherbet Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 i live there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubin Farr Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 didn't you ever see The Andromeda Strain? now we're all dead! way to go Einstein. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Coalbucket PI Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 i am confident that the rest of the course is more boring than this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ezkerraldean Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 Backscattered electron montage of whole Los Angeles sample. Pyroxenes are zoned, Mg>Ca>Fe centre to edge. Maskelynite has almost pure anorthite composition confirming it at shock-melted plagioclase. Pure end-member composition implies that plagioclase was not zoned prior to impact shock. Tonnes of apatite which i didn't pick up on before. FeTiO and FeS minerals indistinguishable in this view, but FeTiO is more common. Unsure as to actual mineralogy of either yet. Bunch of little fayalite, silica and K-spar glass inclusions in fractures, especially within FeTiO. i got to use a Scanning Electron Microscope on my motherfucking mars rocks. was genuinely quite fun. zoom in to 17000x magnification, see all the fucked up tiny-scale structures, click on some point in a crystal, and it will tell you the elemental composition of that point in parts per million minerals come out lighter with increasing heavy element composition. hence the white stuff is the iron- and titanium-rich shit SCIENCE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaarg Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 17000x magnification on a rock from mars sounds loads more science fiction, exciting and loaded with amazing special effects than James Cameron's Avatar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squee Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 Holy mother of all things IDM! ^that fits with your avatar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karmakramer Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 17000x magnification on a rock from mars sounds loads more science fiction, exciting and loaded with amazing special effects than James Cameron's Avatar. lol nice avatar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FortyTwo Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 At least you can make faces out of the rock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nene multiple assgasms Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 DIS SHITS FROM MUTHAFUKIN MARS NIGGА! that's like the most ballinest shit ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hautlle Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 Backscattered electron montage of whole Los Angeles sample. Pyroxenes are zoned, Mg>Ca>Fe centre to edge. Maskelynite has almost pure anorthite composition confirming it at shock-melted plagioclase. Pure end-member composition implies that plagioclase was not zoned prior to impact shock. Tonnes of apatite which i didn't pick up on before. FeTiO and FeS minerals indistinguishable in this view, but FeTiO is more common. Unsure as to actual mineralogy of either yet. Bunch of little fayalite, silica and K-spar glass inclusions in fractures, especially within FeTiO. i got to use a Scanning Electron Microscope on my motherfucking mars rocks. was genuinely quite fun. zoom in to 17000x magnification, see all the fucked up tiny-scale structures, click on some point in a crystal, and it will tell you the elemental composition of that point in parts per million minerals come out lighter with increasing heavy element composition. hence the white stuff is the iron- and titanium-rich shit SCIENCE Some interesting stuff man! Are you a graduate student or is this what you do? mineralogy is interesting, but tedious... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dementia Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 i got to use a Scanning Electron Microscope on my motherfucking mars rocks. see all the fucked up tiny-scale structures the white stuff is the iron- and titanium-rich shit SCIENCE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ezkerraldean Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 Some interesting stuff man! Are you a graduate student or is this what you do? mineralogy is interesting, but tedious... 4th year undergrad, actually. my course somehow involves me doing a masters without actually graduating with a batchelors. i'm playing with these martian fuckers for my masters project. mineralogy tends to suck, but i'm enjoying it at the moment. especially since i've been independently discovering stuff myself, like how the glassy stuff in this sample (maskelynite) has an identical compisition to anorthite, and is therefore an impact-shocked polymorph of anorthite plagioclase. i guessed at that before reading it anywhere in published literature. go me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hautlle Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 That's awesome. As part of my program I have to do a semester of research, but I haven't decided what to do yet. I am considering trying to do something with my Oceanography professor to see if I can get an awesome trip out of it. He does a lot of work with coastal processes, he's been studying ooids because they require a very specific environment to form. They're only found in places like the Bahamas and some other regions (he last went to Aitutaki to study the ones there). The rest of my college career consists of geology and education courses. It would be sick to go somewhere like this and study ocean precipitates Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ezkerraldean Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 awesome shit. did a whole module on carbonate sedimentation last year. geologist are we? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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