Caption: Porous chondrite interplanetary dust particle.
"This is a scanning electron microscope image of an interplanetary dust particle that has roughly chondritic elemental composition and is highly rough (chondritic porous: CP). CP types are usually aggregates of large numbers of sub-micron crystallites (grains), clustered in a random open order." (Somewhat edited.)
Note that chondrites are meteoritic material that has been mostly chemically unprocessed since the solar system formation. They are rich in silicates: i.e, silicon and oxygen like most ordinary rock. There are other elements and compounds. Note that chondrites are NOT ordinary rock.
Credit/Permission: ©
Elmar K. Jessberger,
Donald E. Brownlee (c. 1945--),
2005
(uploaded to Wikipedia
by User:Amara,
2009)
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CC BY-SA 1.0.
Image link: Wikipedia:
File:Porous chondriteIDP.jpg.
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File: Solar System file:
interplanetary_dust.html.