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Carbonates in Ryugu and Bennu with MicrOmega: Insights into Aqueous Alteration on Primitive Asteroids

  • Authors: Max Mahlke, Cateline Lantz, Cédric Pilorget, Donia Baklouti, Rosario Brunetto, Kentaro Hatakeda, Te Jiang, Damien Loizeau, Rachel Sheppard, Alice Aléon-Toppani, Masanao Abe, Jean-Pierre Bibring, Yuma Enokido, Ryota Fukai, Vincent Hamm, Yuya Hitomi, Seiya Kawasaki, Tania Le Pivert-Jolivet, Akiko Miyazaki, Kana Nagashima, Arisa Nakano, Aiko Nakato, Laura Nardelli, Masahiro Nishimura, Tomoko Ojima, Tatsuaki Okada, François Poulet, Lucie Riu, Ryosuke Sakurai, Rui Tahara, Tomohiro Usui, Toru Yada, Kasumi Yogata, Satoru Nakazawa, Takanao Saiki, Satoshi Tanaka, Fuyuto Terui, Seiichiro Watanabe, Makoto Yoshikawa, Yuichi Tsuda

Max Mahlke et al 2026 The Planetary Science Journal 7 .

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Caption: Figure 9.

Identification of dolomite-like and breunnerite-like ROIs in bulk sample ORX-29000 of Bennu. Top: optical microscope image of the sample. White, dotted rectangles give the MicrOmega footprint, approximately 0.56 × 0.57 cm. Orange squares indicate the spots that were analyzed with the FTIR (spot size of 100 µm). The insets show false-RGB images of two MicrOmega measurements. The white contours labeled ROI 1 and ROI 2 show carbonate-rich areas that were automatically identified and characterized as dolomite-like and breunnerite-like respectively. Bottom: the MicrOmega (MO) and FTIR spectra of the two ROIs are shown for wavelengths below 3.6 µm in the left panel. For each ROI, we show the best-matching reference spectra (dolomite and Mg-breunnerite). For ROI 2, magnesite and Fe-breunnerite are further shown. For wavelengths above 3.6 µm (right panel), we depict the continuation of the FTIR spectra and reference vibrational modes of magnesite and dolomite from J. L. Bishop et al. (2021).

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