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• Silica
  ...t common [[mineral]] in the martian crust. The usual form of silica is as Quartz grains, mixed up with other minerals. ...ations of sand, where gravity separation processes have separated the fine quartz crystals from other materials.
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• Sand
  ...h as coral. Most sand is composed of silicate minerals, primarily [[Silica|quartz]], or silicate rock fragments. Sand, being a natural mixture, is almost nev
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• Silicon
  ...Martian crust. Other silicates exist as well, in the general SiOx form. Quartz is pure SiO₂ in crystalline form. *Silicate (or Quartz) is the main components of glass
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• Minerals
  ...lsic rocks are present on Mars, but seem to be fairly rare. These include quartz rich dacites and granitoids which have been found by spacecraft in Syrtis M
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• Water Infrastructure
  ...poria.edu/aberjame/ice/lec02/lec2.htm</ref>, or just below the hardness of quartz. So drilling through cold Martian ice might be very close to drilling thro
  5 KB (831 words) - 11:36, 1 September 2023
• Lighting
  ...has also been used in the past,) is heated to around 3000C. A [[glass]] or quartz bulb is fitted around the filament and the air evacuated or replaced by an
  7 KB (1,056 words) - 21:27, 5 January 2023
• Crew 203 EVA Reports
  ...tests. We described the lithology or the zone and found some minerals like quartz and gypsum.
  11 KB (1,849 words) - 13:17, 7 March 2019
• Crew 205 EVA Reports
  ...scribed in the mission plan. The second sample collected was a crystalline quartz material with brittle composition. The crew then continued north for anothe
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• Crew 190 Journalism Reports
  ...um bacillus subtilis, a very common microorganism, and placing it in small quartz vials (a material which allows UV rays to pass unhindered), in different co
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• Crew 205 Sol Summaries
  ...oon were recorded on GPS for future use in EVAs. Some excellent samples of quartz and sulphur containing deposits were collected and will be analysed in the
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• Curiosity
  ...am instrument. These pale rocks are rich in feldspar and may contain some quartz. The rocks are similar to Earth's granitic continental crust. On Earth the ...Curiosity's CheMin has discovered discovered olivine, pyroxene, feldspar, quartz, magnetite, iron sulfides (pyrite)and pyrrhotite), akaganeite, jarosite, an
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• Crew 205 Journalism Reports
  ...ight from the crews´ visors that were actually shiny rocks (believed to be quartz containing crystals) underneath their feet. They stopped to retrieve these
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• Crew 205 - International Emerging Space Leaders
  ...liana''. Sample 2 is composed of an opaque dark material interspersed with quartz particles and becomes clay-like upon contact with water. Sample 3 is compos
  32 KB (4,936 words) - 18:50, 7 March 2019
• Crew 184 - Journalist Report
  ...en we went there we discovered that these rocks looked somewhat similar to quartz-stones and reflected the sun light to us. We collected the samples and will
  45 KB (8,279 words) - 14:55, 27 March 2019
• Crew 1a - Crew Reports
  ...terspersed within it (comprising approximately 10% of the particles). This quartz-rich sand covered the upper ~3-6 inches of the outcrop. Below this depth wa ...terspersed within it (comprising approximately 10% of the particles). This quartz-rich sand covered the upper ~3-6 inches of the outcrop. Below this depth wa
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• Crew 1b - Crew Reports
  ...terspersed within it (comprising approximately 10% of the particles). This quartz-rich sand covered the upper ~3-6 inches of the outcrop. Below this depth wa
  190 KB (31,918 words) - 09:28, 12 October 2019
• Crew 2 - Crew Reports
  ...rystals and bones and then drove up into the Cretaceous. We found calcite, quartz, and gypsum crystals, but no bones.
  173 KB (29,116 words) - 08:06, 29 October 2019
• Crew 5 - Crew Reports
  ...credible experience. Nearby were also interesting examples of ruby-colored quartz and some translucent ones, too.
  255 KB (43,372 words) - 17:24, 16 March 2020