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

October 29, 2026 · 6:18 pm 2 sources

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• NASA-funded Study Details One of Oldest Mars Meteorites Ever Found
  NASA · October 29, 2026 18:18
  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,…

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• Oldest known Mars rock is a ‘Rosetta stone’ for the Red Planet’s watery past
  Scientific American · October 29, 2026 18:00
  Blasted off Mars by a giant impact long ago, the meteorite Teghaza 001 eventually fell to Earth in the Sahara Desert. Now it’s revealing previously hidden chapters of Mars’s deep past