Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: BRACK, Dennis
Event Date: 1996
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.291788

Inscriptions:
Captions: Verso: Photo number (S96-12300):This electron microscope image shows tubular structures of likely Martian origin. These / structures are very similar in size and shape to extremely tiny microfossils found in some / Earth rocks. This photograph is part of a report by a NASA research team published in / the Aug. 16, 1996, issue of the journal Science. A two-year investigation by the team / found organic molecules, mineral features characteristic of biological activity and possible / microscopic fossils such as these inside of an ancient Martian rock that fell to Earth as a / meteorite. The largest possible fossils are about 1/10 micrometer in size, or less than / 1/100th the diameter of a human hair in size, while most are ten times smaller.Markings:Verso: Photo number (S96-12300):This electron microscope image shows tubular structures of likely Martian origin. These / structures are very similar in size and shape to extremely tiny microfossils found in some / Earth rocks. This photograph is part of a report by a NASA research team published in / the Aug. 16, 1996, issue of the journal Science. A two-year investigation by the team / found organic molecules, mineral features characteristic of biological activity and possible / microscopic fossils such as these inside of an ancient Martian rock that fell to Earth as a / meteorite. The largest possible fossils are about 1/10 micrometer in size, or less than / 1/100th the diameter of a human hair in size, while most are ten times smaller.

Tagasauris Keywords: Biological activity; Day; Electron microscope; Fossil; Mars; Microscope; Microscopic scale; Molecule; Monochrome Photography; NASA; No Photostyle; Nobody; Nobody; Organism; Outdoors; Planet; Science and technology; Space science; Still Life
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY / SPACE
Retouching: N