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Montmorillonite
| origin | clay mineral commercially available from WARD's Science, USA |
| main constituent | aluminium-rich clay mineral |
| practical significance | early choices of Earth spectral analogs showed a predominantly montmorillonite composition since its reflectance spectra in the VIS and NIR are similar to the Martian spectra (Toon et al. 1977) |
| particle size | measured size distributions Mie: reff=2.8 μm, v Fraunhofer: reff=1.8 μm, veff=1.6 |
| particle shape | irregular |
| refractive index | 1.52 + i0.0001 (488nm) (Sokolik and Toon 1999)
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| color | light gray |
| scattering matrix | 488 nm |
| article | Dabrowska DD, Muñoz O, Moreno F, Ramos JL, Martínez-Frías J, Gerhard W. . Scattering matrices of Martian dust analogs 488 nm and 647 nm. Icarus, vol. 250, pp. 83-94, 2015 |
