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First Meteorite Linked to Martian Crust

Washington, D.C.—After extensive analyses by a team of scientists led by Carl Agee at the University of New Mexico, researchers have identified a new class of Martian meteorite that likely originated from the Mars’s crust. It is also the only meteoritic sample dated to 2.1 billion years ago, the early era of the most recent …