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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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QUE94201
QUE 94201 is a Martian meteorite recovered in Antarctica's Queen Alexandra Range during the 1994 field season. It is classified as a basaltic shergottite, a type of igneous rock ejected from Mars by an impact and later delivered to Earth. Laboratory studies have placed its crystallization at roughly 327 million years ago, making it a comparatively young Martian volcanic rock used by planetary scie...
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