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Shergotty
Shergotty is a basaltic Martian meteorite that fell near Sherghati, in present-day Bihar, India, in 1865. Its mineral composition, trapped gases, and other chemical evidence connect it to rocks ejected from Mars by an impact. The specimen gives its name to shergottites, the largest major group within the SNC Martian meteorites, and serves as an important reference for studying volcanic processes o...
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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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