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The Virtual Microscope

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Directly manipulate photorealistic rock sample slides

The Virtual Microscope allows students to directly manipulate photorealistic rock sample slides. In the simulation they can rotate the slides and use a polarising filter.

Participant(s): Peter Whalley, Kevin Quick, Jon Linney and the Department of Earth Sciences

Project Champion: Peter Whalley
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URL: http://met.open.ac.uk/vms/vms.html


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Kelley, P., Tindle, D., Anand, D., Whalley, P., Hogan, P., Valentine, C., Pillinger, P., Gibson, E. and Schwenzer, S. (2011) The Open University-NASA Apollo Virtual Microscope - a tool for Education and Outreach, Poster at 42nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, The Woodlands, Texas, USA

 
 
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