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Sahara Sand (Libya)
| origin | Saharan desert in Libya |
| main constituents | desert dust particles composed of a variety of different minerals, including a large fraction of quartz |
| 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=124.75 μm, veff=0.15 |
| particle shape | irregular |
| refractive index | the estimated average is 1.5 + i0.004 |
| color | brownish |
| scattering matrix | 632.8 nm |
| article | Muñoz O, Volten H, Hovenier JW, Nousiainen T, Muinonen K, Guirado D, Moreno F, Waters LBFM. Scattering matrix of large Saharan dust particles: Experiments and computations. Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 112, D13215, 2007 |
