NASA-funded Study Details One of Oldest Mars Meteorites Ever Found

T1Covered by 1 source · first reported by NASA / ESA / JAXA at 29 Oct, 18:18 UTC

When a rose-colored meteorite was found in the Sahara Desert in 2022, no one knew how old it was or where it came from. Not until NASA-funded scientists age-dated its minerals did they realize the nearly 2-pound (800-gram) rock was a piece of Mars that formed more than 4.1 billion years ago, making…