At the ALS, researchers used infrared light to study the evolution of minerals in a meteorite at the nanoscale. The work sheds light on conditions in the early solar system. It lays the groundwork for analyzing pristine asteroid samples to be returned to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission in 2023. https://als.lbl.gov/nanoscale-infrared-study-of-meteorite-mineralogy/
January 2019 – July 2022
