NMNH - Bennu, 1
January 29, 2025
Rob Wardell, Tim Gooding and Tim McCoy, Smithsonian.
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.