"Entirely Surprising" – Scientists Have Found a Martian Meteorite Unlike Any Known Before
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Boston College researchers determined that meteorite Northwest Africa 13441, found in Algeria and blasted from Mars, crystallized 1.273 billion years ago, filling a roughly 1.8 billion year gap in the shergottite meteorite record and revealing a deep Martian source with an unexpected isotopic signature unlike any previously identified.
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