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Martian Rock Found In Morocco

Posted by simoniker on from the red-planet-visits-here dept.

daeley writes "The BBC is reporting that a rock found in 2001 in Morocco is originally from Mars, similar in composition to the 1977 Antartica find. 'The meteorite would have been blasted off the Red Planet by an impact and may hold clues to Mars' watery past... scientists say the fragments are magmatic rocks. Magmatism is the main process by which water moves from the core of planets to their surface.'"

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  1. So? by toxic666 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We have rovers on Mars collecting data that has no chance of being contaminated by a meteorite impact, travel through space and terrestrial processes.

    I'll take data from the horse's mouth.

    Rock on, Rovers!