Martian meteorites land at Army lab
Channel: U.S. Army DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory
Date: 2019-03-13

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (March 13, 2019) -- NASA officials say that some rare and distinct meteorites found on Earth were actually blasted off Mars by a large impact event. One such rock from the red planet made its way to an Army laboratory recently for a special X-ray look inside.

Editor’s note: NASA-Goddard would like to credit the Dr. Jay Piatek Meteorite Collection for the permission to undertake ground-breaking measurements of Martian and lunar meteorites, and to the Curation and Analysis Planning Team for Extraterrestrial Materials and NASA Johnson Space Center for permission to work with the Apollo samples.

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