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Tissint Meteorite Thin Section - XPL HDR Pathscan Enabler.

Solar Anamnesis, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2iy9SVg

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in reply to M.S. Bellows, Jr.

@msbellows thin section of a meteorite in cross polarized light; the meteorite has Martian signature; "Olivine macrocrysts (to 1.5 mm) and microphenocrysts (to 0.4 mm) are set in a finer groundmass of patchily zoned pyroxene, plagioclase (maskelynite), Ti-poor chromite, ilmenite, pyrrhotite and minor merrillite" (LPI)

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