A Martian meteorite that landed on Earth more than a century ago has helped scientists learn about the history of water on the Red Planet.

Once the Lafayette meteorite (and possibly the other nakhlites too) had been blasted off Mars by an impact and sent spinning into space, it was exposed to the cosmic rays that irradiated the ...

Their research delved into nakhlites, a group of igneous rocks that originated on the fourth planet from the sun. By examining them, the scientists hoped to get a better sense of just when there ...

Even smaller is the number of nakhlites, one of the three categories of Martian meteorites, of which there are only 32 recognized samples, according to The Meteoritical Society. The Lafayette ...

Found in a drawer Thanks to research, quite a bit is known about the Lafayette Meteorite's origin story. It was ejected from the surface of Mars about 11 million years ago by an impact event. "We ...

Dating the alteration minerals in Lafayette and, more generally, in this class of meteorites from Mars called nakhlites, has been a long-term objective in planetary science because scientists know ...

Dating the alteration minerals in Lafayette and, more generally, in this class of meteorites from Mars called nakhlites, has been a long-term objective in planetary science because scientists know ...