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NMNH - Bennu, 1

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January 29, 2025

Rob Wardell, Tim Gooding and Tim McCoy, Smithsonian.

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Sodium carbonate, also known commonly as soda ash. Each needle is less than a micrometer wide by 5–10 micrometers in length; a human hair is about 100 micrometers wide. The needles form a vein that cuts through the clay-rich rock around it.



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Magnesium sodium phosphate shown as red

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