CO2 snow with 0.1% H2O ice (Layer #2) | GhoSST | SSHADE

Layer

Name: CO2 snow with 0.1% H2O ice
Order: 2

Physical characteristics

Type of layer: granular
Thickness: 55.0 $\pm$ 1.0 $mm$
Texture: sintered granular
Type of porosity: porous
Porosity: 0.5 $\pm$ 0.02
Density: 0.78 $\pm$ 0.03 $g.cm^{-3}$
Comments: Total H2O ice in the layer ~0.1 $/pm$ 0.015% (impurity + added)

Formation conditions

Formation mode: manual deposition
Temperature: 195.0 $\pm$ 5.0 $K$
Comments: The layer is prepared by mixing CO2 snow and sprayed H2O ice

Materials in layer

Number

3

Arrangement

homogeneous mixing

Materials

	Name	Arrangement	Mass (g)	Mass fraction	Abundance comments
	H2O ice			0.00075	added to the pre-exiting H2O ice 'impurity' in CO2 snow
	CO2 snow			0.998950225
	H2O ice impurity			0.00029977499999999995	small but strongly variable $H_2O$ ice impurity due to water vapor condensation on $CO_2$ snow.