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Sahara Sand
origin | collected in the Sahara desert |
main constituents | quartz, clay minerals, calcium carbonate |
practical significance | interpretation of remote sensing data. Analogues of other planets' atmospheric dust, and dust in comets, asteroids, and circumstellar shells |
particle size | measured size distributions Fraunhofer: reff=8.2 μm, veff=4.0 |
particle shape | irregular |
refractive index | estimated to be in the range [1.5-1.7] + i[0.00001-0.001] |
color | yellow brown |
scattering matrix | 441.6 nm 632.8 nm |
article | Volten H, Muñoz O, Rol E, de Haan JF, Vassena W, Hovenier JW. Scattering matrices of mineral aerosol particles at 441.6 nm and 632.8 nm. Journal of Geophysical Research, 106, no. D15, pp. 17,375-17,401, 2001 |