The Quantum Diamond Microscope (QDM) is a powerful tool for revealing the unknown. Recently, a team at Harvard University used the QDM to provide new insights about Mars, including its habitability and magnetic properties.
In a pioneering study, Sarah Steele from Harvard University’s Paleomagnetics Lab has presented evidence suggesting that Mars may have been habitable approximately 3.9 billion years ago. Published in Nature Communications, the study revises the previously estimated timeline of Mars’ habitability, which was thought to be around 4.1 billion years ago.
This new finding indicates that the planet’s magnetic field may have persisted for several hundred million years longer than previously believed. The research team utilised advanced simulation and computational modeling techniques to refine their estimate of the age of Mars’ global magnetic field, or “dynamo.”
Imagine what else the QDM can reveal…
Quantum Diamond Microscope
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The quantum diamond microscope offers wide-field imaging of magnetic fields with highest sensitivity. It uses a nitrogen-doped diamond chip to simultaneously image the magnetic fields of a sample over a large area. The user-friendly benchtop system can measure both, the strength and orientation of the local field in real time.
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