Other members of the project's science team said the Mössbauer spectrometer found considerable amounts of the mineral olivine in the soil.
These volcanics surround eroded remains of the basalt lava flows and are composed of the mineral olivine.
They appear green in colour and contain the magnesium iron silicate mineral olivine.
Peridot (pronounced "pair-uh-dot" or "pair-uh-doe") is the gem quality version of the mineral olivine.
Some areas of Syrtis Major contain large amounts of the mineral olivine.
Scientists for the Stardust mission announce that they found the mineral olivine in the samples returned from the comet 81P/Wild.
Olivine is the typical color of the mineral olivine.
It gets its distinctive coloring from the mineral olivine, found in the enclosing cinder cone.
It is very structurally similar to the much more common mineral olivine.
TES identified a large (30,000 square-kilometer) area that contained the mineral olivine.