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The Virtual Microscope allows users to examine and explore minerals and microscopic features of rocks, helping them to develop classification and identification skills without the need for high-cost microscopes and thin section preparation facilities.
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The Virtual Microscope allows users to examine and explore minerals and microscopic features of rocks, helping them to develop classification and identification skills without the need for high-cost microscopes and thin section preparation facilities.
This collection contains over 570 virtual microscope samples created from rock samples returned from the Moon's surface by the six lander missions. In addition, the collection includes one sample from the Russian Luna 16 mission (available at the end of the Apollo 11 collection).
An expanding catalogue of minerals with descriptions of properties that will help you identify them in thin section, along with links to typical examples in Virtual Microscope samples.
Every Collection gives you access to virtual thin sections – and in some cases virtual hand specimens as well – of a range of samples for you to study as if using a specialist petrological microscope.
The United Kingdom Virtual Microscope (UKVM) for Earth Sciences collection is a freely accessible online open educational resource (OER) that highlights the range of rocks that form the United Kingdom, including igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks.
About Virtual Microscope An overview, our backstory, the user guide and contacts
The virtual microscope system works by presenting small parts of a large image that has been diced electronically into many pieces, an approach used to facilitate zooming and panning in many web and phone-based map applications.
While virtual microscopes don't replace physical microscopes, they are a significant step change that allows students to explore whole thin sections either supervised, on their own, or with other students, and have a learning experience much closer to conventional laboratory microscopes.