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Loading contentIgneous rocks blasted off Mars by impacts, identified by trapped gas matching the Martian atmosphere.
Rocks ejected from Mars by large impacts and later swept up by Earth — identified by trapped gases matching the composition measured in the Martian atmosphere by landers.
2 modelled meteorites.
A Martian meteorite recovered from Antarctica in 1984 and made famous in 1996 by a disputed claim that microscopic structures within it might be evidence of ancient Martian microbial life.
Nicknamed 'Black Beauty', a Martian breccia containing the most water of any Mars meteorite and some of the oldest Martian crust yet sampled.
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