March+28-29

One small step for a lab, one giant leap for labkind.

March 28th: - As suggested by the above title, today we imaged the lunar dust - Not on the electron scopes (AFM/STM) but on the optical scope in Nieuwland (a Leica MZ95) - We imaged the samples I had taken from the Apollo 15 bag - These are just the dust on double-sided tape, which is itself on the strip paper - Therefore, there is separation between the dust and the paper, which is where the tape is- this gives it a strange appearance of floating - The scope had a strange way of labeling magnification levels:
 * Selector || Magnification ||
 * 6.0 || 96x ||
 * 5.0 || 80x ||
 * 4.0 || 63x ||
 * 3.2 || 51.2x ||
 * 2.5 || 40x ||
 * 2.0 || 32x ||
 * 1.6 || 25.6x ||
 * 1.25 || 20x ||
 * 1.0 || 16x ||
 * 0.8 || 12.8x ||
 * 0.63 || 10.1x ||