Layer
Name
Porous Olivine powder (sublimation residue made of sub-micrometre sized grains)
Type of layer
granular
Thickness
2.0  $\pm$ 0.5  $mm$
Texture
other
Type of porosity
particulate
Comments
This porous surface of sub-micrometre sized grains was produced by mixing the grains with water ice particles and sublimating the ice.
Formation mode
fractional sublimation
Number
2
Arrangement
single material
Materials
  Name Arrangement Mass (g) Mass fraction Abundance comments
Olivine Forsterite grains 1.0
Quartz