The Ophiolite massifs are composed of mantle peridotite that is mainly harzburgite and dunite, and lacked of crust magmatite within the typical Ophiolite suite.
Peridotite has undergone strong serpentinization and was completely replaced by serpentinite, but the pseudomorph of olivine and orthopyroxene still are preserved.
We know that to a depth of about a hundred miles the mantle consists predominantly of a type of rock known as peridotite, but what fills the space beyond is uncertain.
Its mission is to analyse the composition of olivine rocks near the Shioli Crater, some 200 miles south of the Sea of Tranquility, where Neil Armstrong took his famous " small step" .