A rare fireball flew over Maine. Now there's a $25K reward for pieces of space rock Enlarge this image toggle caption AP AP A rare fireball was spotted streaking across the northern Maine sky in broad daylight last week. "The existence of positive Doppler radar returns — meteorites detected descending through the atmosphere just several miles above ground — assures …
The Martian subsurface might be a good place to look for possible present-day life on the Red Planet, according to a study. The study, published in the journal Astrobiology, looked at the chemical composition of Martian meteorites -- rocks blasted off of the surface of Mars that eventually landed on Earth. "The big implication here for subsurface exploration science is …
Martian meteorites also hold clues about how people may one day be able to survive on the planet. Although there have been no return missions, there is a lot we can learn without travelling to Mars — from the more than 260 Martian meteorites that have fallen on Earth. Using a scanning electron microscope, my examination revealed it was a …
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