Friday, 4 January 2013

Mars meteorite contains ten times more water than previous finds

Black Beauty

Scientists have identified a never-before-seen type of meteorite from Mars that has 10 times more water and far more oxygen in it than any previous Martian sample.


The meteorite was found in the Sahara Desert in 2011 and has the official name of Northwest Africa 7034. It is a small basaltic rock formed from rapidly cooling lava -- nicknamed "Black Beauty". The meteorite is about 2.1 billion years old, from a period known as the Martian Amazonian epoch, and provides scientists with their first hands-on glimpse of this era.


By: Adam Mann, Edited by: David Cornish


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via Wired.co.uk



http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-01/04/mars-meteorite

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