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Presentation - In Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) - NASA

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Agglutinates<br />

<strong>In</strong>dividual particles – aggregates of smaller<br />

particles (mineral grain, glass, rocks, older<br />

agglutinates) bonded together by vesicular flow<br />

banded glass in varying proportions. 30-80%<br />

glass<br />

100 µm<br />

Vesicles (holes): liberated solar wind gases<br />

and generated H 2 O (FeO + 2H = Fe +H 2 O)<br />

Contain minute droplets of near pure Fe metal<br />

(very fine grained single domain Fe 0 , 30-100Å<br />

mounds and trains of metal Fe, attached to grains

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