Space rock tracked to Mars

Scientists have worked out exactly where a meteorite (fallen space rock) containing some of the oldest known Martian rock came from. The 320-gram “Black Beauty” meteorite was discovered in Morocco in 2011. It is made from a jumble of earlier Martian rocks and scientists think some of these fragments could be around 4.4 billion years old. Given its age and variety of rocks, astronomers have been keen to learn more about Black Beauty’s history. Studies suggest that it was dug out of the Martian crust in a large impact about 1.5 billion years ago. It then lay on the surface until it was catapulted into space when another space rock hit Mars five to 10 million years ago. Now, a team from Curtin University in Australia say they’ve traced its…

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