Scientists have traced the origins of the Lafayette Meteorite back to Mars, dating its water-altered minerals to 742 million ...
The Lafayette meteorite was discovered in a drawer at Purdue University in 1931, with no clear indication of how it got there ...
The unlikely journey that brought the Lafayette Meteorite to Purdue University’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and ...
"We think the water came from the melting of nearby sub-surface ice called permafrost, and that the permafrost melting was ...
An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of ...
Despite the team's success in dating the water-rock interaction, the researchers don't think Mars was teeming with water at ...
The study identified when water interacted with the meteorite and established that the dating was unaffected by events after ...
When did liquid water exist on Mars and what can it tell us about when, or if, life ever existed on the Red Planet? This is ...
This meteorite was rediscovered in a drawer at Purdue University in 1931 and therefore named the Lafayette Meteorite. During early investigations of the Lafayette Meteorite, scientists discovered ...
Mars was hit by an asteroid 11 million years ago because of which pieces of the Red Planet had been disbursed into space.  A ...
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