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Lafayette
Lafayette is a nakhlite, a type of igneous meteorite identified as originating on Mars. It was recognized in the collection of Purdue University in Indiana by 1931, although the circumstances and date of its arrival on Earth remain uncertain. Studies of alteration minerals within it, including clay and carbonate phases, have provided evidence that its Martian parent rock interacted with liquid wat...
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EETA79001
Elephant Moraine A79001, commonly abbreviated EETA79001, is a Martian shergottite discovered in Antarctica in 1979. Glassy impact-melt inclusions within it contain gases whose elemental and isotopic composition closely matches measurements of the Martian atmosphere made by the Viking landers. That correspondence became crucial evidence that the SNC meteorites originated on Mars, rather than on an...
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