HomeAstronomyThe mystery of how Mars meteorites reach Earth may finally be solved

The mystery of how Mars meteorites reach Earth may finally be solved

Scientists have discovered that the force needed to eject rocks from the surface of Mars that eventually pelt Earth as meteorites is actually much lower than previously believed. 

Meteorites from a variety of sources have been discovered across Earth’s surface for thousands of years, but Mars wasn’t suggested as a possible source of this bombardment until the 1970s when measurements of the Martian atmosphere made by NASA’s Viking orbiters were found to match gases locked in these space rocks. Nonetheless, it remained unknown how exactly these rocks might have made it all the way from the Red Planet to Earth.

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