Pass the salt: This space rock holds clues as to how Earth got its water NatureAstronomy
This research was supported by the NASA Laboratory Analysis of Returned Samples grant no. 80NSSC19K0509 awarded to T.J.Z. We acknowledge NASA grant no. NNX12AL47G and no. NNX15AJ22G, and NSF grant no. 1531243 and no. 0619599 for funding the instrumentation in the KMICF at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, UA. We thank R. Downs in the Department of Geosciences, UA for the loan of the terrestrial albite sample.
We greatly appreciate members of the Planetary Materials Research Group at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory for very helpful feedback and suggestions. S.C. would like to thank P.-M. Zanetta for helpful conversations on quantification of EDS spectra and L. Keller, J. Lewis and M. Zolotov for useful information and discussions. S.C. also appreciates Z. Zeszut, T. Ramprasad and Y.-J. Chang for their assistance with FIB and TEM operations.Shaofan Che & Thomas J. ZegaThomas J.
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