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What the $5.3 Million Martian Meteorite Reveals About Mars—and What It Can’t
There’s really no substitute for ‘ground truth,’ and the Martian meteorites represent the only known samples from that planet ...
The Largest Piece of Mars in the World Just Sold for a Record $5.3 Million
A 54-pound Martian rock, known as NWA 16788, fetched a record $5.3 million at Sotheby’s, becoming the most expensive ...
Largest Piece Of Mars On Earth Sold At Auction For Record-Breaking $5.3 Million
A 54-pound meteorite from Mars, believed to be the largest piece of the planet currently on Earth, sold in a Sotheby’s auction for $5.3 million after a 15-minute bidding war to quickly become the most ...
Meteorite fragments found in the Sahara turn out to be from the most mysterious planet in our solar system
Very few meteorites from this planet ever reach Earth and none have been scientifically proven. A study investigated two ...