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Nakhla
Nakhla is a Martian meteorite that fell near El Nakhla El Bahariya in Egypt on 28 June 1911. It is the type specimen for nakhlites, igneous rocks dominated by clinopyroxene that crystallized from magma on Mars and were later launched into space by an impact. Secondary minerals and alteration features within Nakhla provide evidence that liquid water interacted with the rock while it was still on Ma...
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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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