Of the roughly 400 Martian meteorites ever found on Earth, none has been dated to the window between 600 million and 2.4 billion years ago — until a rock found in Algeria in 2019 was confirmed this month as 1.273 billion years old, sitting precisely in th
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- Mars Meteorite Found in Algeria Dates Back to a Previously Hidden Time Gizmodo · 3d ago
- Minerals associated with plate tectonics found in oldest rock from Mars Yahoo · 3d ago broke it first
- The Deep Interior of Mars Is No Longer Hidden—Thanks to a Meteorite from the Red Planet inkorr.com · 3d ago
- Rare Mars meteorite sheds light on billion-year mystery in solar system's past Yahoo · 3d ago broke it first
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