Wet JSC Mars-1 Mars soil simulant (Step #5 in the drying sequence) (Layer #1) | BYPASS | SSHADE

Layer

Name: Wet JSC Mars-1 Mars soil simulant (Step #5 in the drying sequence)

Physical characteristics

Type of layer: granular
Thickness: 10.0 $\pm$ 2.0 $mm$
Texture: loose granular
Type of porosity: particulate

Formation conditions

Formation mode: manual deposition
Temperature: 293.0 $K$

Materials in layer

Number

7

Arrangement

fluid in porous solid

Materials

	Name	Arrangement	Mass (g)	Mass fraction	Abundance comments
	Liquid water			0.2	The exact abundance was not measured but can be roughly estimated from the comparison with more quantitative results from the progressive wetting experiment.
	Ti-Magnetite			0.168
	Anorthite
	Olivine
	Ferrihydrite			0.084
	Augite
	Orthopyroxenes