Probing the nature of extraterrestrial dust reaching the Earth’s surface collected from the Maitri station, Antarctica

• Published in: Meteoritics & Planetary Science
• Main Authors: Rudraswami, N. G., Fernandes, D., Pandey, M.
• Other Authors: Indian Space Research Organisation, Ministry of Earth Sciences
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2020
• Subjects: Maitri; Maitri Station; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/maps.13574; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/maps.13574; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/maps.13574

Abstract Micrometeorites (MMs) are extraterrestrial dust particles, in the size range of tens of µm to mm, recovered from the Earth’s surface primarily from deep‐sea sediments, Antarctica, and also from space. The present collection of MMs (>50 µm) obtained by melting ~50 t of ice near the Maitri...