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The secret of Mars came out of the drawer: It broke away from the red planet 11 million years ago!

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November 15, 2024

A meteorite from Mars revealed striking findings about the history of liquid water on the Red Planet. Scientists determined that there was liquid water on Mars 742 million years ago by examining this meteorite.

An asteroid that hit Mars about 11 million years ago caused pieces of the planet to scatter into space.
One of these pieces was found in a drawer at Purdue University in the USA in 1931.
Previous studies had determined that this meteorite, called the “Lafayette Meteorite”, contained signs of interaction with liquid water on Mars. However, it was not clear when this interaction occurred.
Purdue University researchers sought an answer to this question with a new study. In the study published in the peer-reviewed journal Geochemical Perspective Letters, dating was performed on the meteorite minerals using noble gases such as helium and neon. The research showed that interaction with water on Mars occurred 742 million years ago.
The lead author of the study, Marissa Tremblay, states that there was not an abundance of liquid water on the surface of Mars at that time.
Tremblay said, “The water probably came from the melting of underground ice called permafrost. “It may have been caused by magmatic activities on Mars,” he said, adding that this melting could have been caused by magmatic activities on Mars.
These findings regarding the history of liquid water on Mars strengthen the possibility that the Red Planet once hosted life at a microbial level.
In addition, meteorites have a “time capsule” function once again demonstrates the fact that seeing the planets can shed light on their geological past.
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