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ALH84001
ALH 84001 is a roughly 4.1-billion-year-old Martian orthopyroxenite meteorite found in Antarctica's Allan Hills in 1984. In 1996, researchers reported microscopic structures and chemical features that they interpreted as possible evidence of ancient Martian life, prompting extensive scientific debate. Later studies offered nonbiological explanations, but the specimen remains important for research...
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Zagami
Zagami is a Martian basaltic shergottite meteorite that fell near Zagami, Nigeria, in 1962. The recovered stone weighed about 18 kilograms, making it one of the largest individual Martian meteorites known. Its igneous minerals and trapped gases have been studied as evidence of volcanic processes and atmospheric conditions on Mars, so it serves as an important reference sample for planetary scienti...
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