Exploration · first seen 11 Aug, updated 11 Aug
A dark rock picked off the gravel plains of Oman turned out to be a piece of Mars, blasted off the planet by an impact. It now rides aboard Perseverance as a calibration target, back on the world it came from
A meteorite that fell to Earth from Mars now helps calibrate instruments on a rover exploring the Red Planet—a cosmic round trip that took 300,000 years. The post A dark rock picked off the gravel plains of Oman turned out to be a piece of…
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