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NWA 856
NWA 856 is a Martian meteorite classified as a basaltic shergottite, discovered in Northwest Africa around 2001. As a shergottite, it is a piece of Mars that was ejected into space by a massive asteroid impact on the Red Planet before eventually landing on Earth. The meteorite is particularly notable for its geochemical enrichment signature, sharing characteristics with other enriched shergottites...
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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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