Origin of the 'Black Beauty' meteorite is revealed
Black Beauty, also known as NWA 7034, was ejected into space when an asteroid created the six-mile-wide Karratha Crater, report experts at Curtin University in Perth, Australia.
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Black Beauty, also known as NWA 7034, was ejected into space when an asteroid created the six-mile-wide Karratha Crater, report experts at Curtin University in Perth, Australia.
Named Black Beauty, it formed almost 4.5 billion years ago and adds to evidence that Mars was once habitable.
Researchers used a supercomputer to analyse thousands of images of craters on Mars to find one that matched the properties of an unusual rock
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Planetary scientists are eager to bring Red Planet rocks, soil and even air to Earth, but critics fear the risk of contaminating our world’s biosphere