Searching for Micrometeoroid with a Foldscope
Dec 21, 2024 • 4:55 PM UTC
South Korea
140x Magnification
Non-Living
Manu Prakash
I am a faculty at Stanford and run the Prakash Lab at Department of Bioengineering at Stanford University. Foldscope community is at the heart of our Frugal Science movement - and I can not tell you how proud I am of this community and grassroots movement. Find our work here: http://prakashlab.stanford.edu
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In my last trip to Seoul; on a rough that had not been washed for a few years - I took a small magnet and walked around with the same on the roof. In a few minutes - a ton of dust like things were clinging to the magnet.
I quickly popped them in a foldscope; and was seeing an incredible universe of small magnetic particles. And a few hours of search later - I found my first Micrometeoroid!!
Try it - it’s simple and easy way to “find something truly out of this world”!!
Keep exploring.
Manu
I quickly popped them in a foldscope; and was seeing an incredible universe of small magnetic particles. And a few hours of search later - I found my first Micrometeoroid!!
Try it - it’s simple and easy way to “find something truly out of this world”!!
Keep exploring.
Manu
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