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Ancient Mars Rock Found in the Sahara Desert

Scientists funded by NASA, the US space agency, have found that a meteorite named Teghaza 001 is from Mars. It is more than 4.1 billion years old. That age puts it among the three oldest Martian meteorites ever found on Earth. The pink-toned rock was found in 2022 on a salt plain in Mali in the Sahara Desert. It weighs…

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