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thumb|Surface of asteroid 433 Eros

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Regolith
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thumb|Surface of asteroid 433 Eros

Regolith () is a blanket of unconsolidated, loose, heterogeneous superficial deposits covering solid rock. It includes dust, broken rocks, and other related materials and is present on Earth, the Moon, Mars, some asteroids, and other terrestrial planets and moons.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “regolith” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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