ID 716437
Lot 52 | NEIL BUCKLAND COSMIC MICROSCAPE — THE MARTIAN METEORITE NWA 13885
Valeur estimée
$ 3 000 – 6 000
NWA 13885 is an olivine-phyric shergottite — a type of a Mars rock that contains large grains (called phenocrysts) of olivine (that crystallized from the parent magma deep underground) set within a finer-grained groundmass (that crystallized more rapidly near or at the surface of Mars. In this partially cross-polarized (XPL70) image, the large colored grains are the olivine phenocrysts, the smaller prismatic grains are pyroxene (mostly blue), maskelynite (light gray) and opaque oxide minerals (black).
A 12-color archival pigment on 100% cotton rag. Coated with a satin acrylic finish, the print is frameless, glassless and mounted on a birch wood panel. The panel is signed and numbered — limited edition 3 of 9 — on the reverse.
Christie's would like to thank Dr. Alan E. Rubin at the Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles for his assistance in preparing this catalogue.
40 x 40 in. (101.6 x 101.6cm)
| Catégorie: | Météorite martienne |
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| Catégorie: | Météorite martienne |
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