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A 54-pound meteorite from Mars is expected to fetch up to $4 million when it goes up for auction later this month at ...
The largest-known piece of Mars to be found on Earth will be up for bid and could be sold for up to $4 million at auction.
Discovered in Niger in 2023, the rare chunk weighs 54 pounds and represents more than 6 percent of all Mars material on Earth ...
In July 2023, a meteorite hunter found a 54-pound rock in Niger. They sent it to the Shanghai Astronomy Museum for analysis and experts determined the rock, dubbed NWA 16788, had likely broken away ...
In all, there are only 400 known Mars rocks on Earth, comprising less than 1% of all known space rocks on the Blue Planet.
Sotheby’s has unveiled the largest Martian meteorite ever recovered on Earth, a 54-pound (24.4-kg) specimen known as NWA ...
Curiosity stitched 291 Mastcam photos into a color-balanced 360° panorama of Gale Crater’s “boxwork” ridges—spiderweb-like ...
Might sinuous ridges carved out across the ancient highlands of Mars hold the secret to a vanished age of rivers and rain on the Red Planet? Over 15,000 kilometers of such fluvial sinuous ridges, or ...
Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.
If we're to land humans on Mars in the coming decades, we'll have to know what challenges await them when they get there.