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Bookmark or Share- 200 meteorites on Earth traced to 5 craters on Mars | SpaceAstronomers have traced the origins of 200 meteorites to five impact craters in two volcanic regions on Mars, known as Tharsis and Elysium.
- A seismic meteor strike on Mars | Science - AAASOn 24 December 2021, the InSight Mars lander recorded, for the first time ever, a seismic surface wave on Mars generated by a meteor strike. The data revealed previously unknown structural details of the martian crust.
- NASA’s InSight Lander Detects Stunning Meteoroid Impact on MarsNASA’s InSight lander recorded a magnitude 4 marsquake last Dec. 24, but scientists learned only later the cause of that quake: a meteoroid strike estimated to be one of the biggest seen on Mars since NASA began exploring the cosmos.
- Martian meteorite - WikipediaA Martian meteorite is a rock that formed on Mars, was ejected from the planet by an impact event, and traversed interplanetary space before landing on Earth as a meteorite. As of September 2020, 277 meteorites had been classified as Martian, less than half a percent of the 72,000 meteorites that have been classified. [1]
- Mars - Meteorites, Exploration, Origin | BritannicaMars - Meteorites, Exploration, Origin: Scientists have identified more than 300 meteorites that have come from Mars. Suspicions about their origin were first raised when meteorites that appeared to be volcanic rocks were found to have ages of about 1.3 billion years instead of the 4.5 billion years of all other meteorites.
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