Rob Wardell, Tim Gooding and Tim McCoy, Smithsonian.
Magnesium sodium phosphate. Phosphorus is shown as light red. Today, it lacks a crystalline structure, so it is not technically a mineral. In fact, phosphates like these are not known from Earth. These phosphates were among the first traces of elements concentrated by water found by OSIRIS-REx researchers in Bennu samples.
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