Layer
Name
Porous Pyroxene powder (sublimation residue made of sub-micrometre sized grains)
Type of layer
granular
Thickness
3.5  $\pm$ 1.5  $mm$
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
7
Arrangement
single material
Materials
  Name Arrangement Mass (g) Mass fraction Abundance comments
Enstatite 0.44
Diopside 0.11
Talc 0.27
Plagioclase 0.09
Amphibole trace
Quartz trace
Kaolinite trace