
Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
burritojustice ("Burrito Justice") wrote:
SERPENTINE…
IN…
SPAAAAACE
“Analysis of the Bennu sample unveiled intriguing insights into the asteroid’s composition. Dominated by clay minerals, particularly serpentine, the sample mirrors the type of rock found at mid-ocean ridges on Earth, where material from the mantle, the layer beneath Earth’s crust, encounters water”