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What to do Mars Mars is the second smallest planet in our solar system and the fourth planet from the sun. It is a dusty, cold, desert world with a very thin atmosphere. Iron oxide is abundant on the surface of Mars, giving it its reddish color and its nickname "Red Planet." The name Mars comes from the Roman god of war. ” data-gt-translate-attributes=”[{” attribute=””>Mars and Iceland have in common? These days, not so much. However, more than 4.5 billion years ago, it’s possible the Red Planet had a crust comparable to Iceland today. This discovery, hidden in the oldest Martian fragments found on our planet, could provide information about Earth that was lost over billions of years of geological movement. It could also help explain why the Earth developed into a planet that sustains a broad diversity of life, while Mars did not. These insights into Earth’s past came out of a new study that details how they found the likely Martian origin of the 4.48-billion-year-old m

Meteorite NWA 7034, nicknamed Black Beauty, has fascinated geologists since it was discovered in the Sahara Desert in 2011. Scientists announced Tuesday that they have discovered the crater where the oldest known Martian meteorite was originally blasted toward Earth, a discovery that could provide clues as to how our own planet formed. Meteorite NWA 7034, nicknamed Black Beauty, has fascinated geologists since it was discovered in the Sahara Desert in 2011. It fits in the hand, weighs over 300 grams (10.6 ounces), and contains a mix of materials including zircon, which is nearly 4.5 billion years old. “That makes it one of the oldest rocks studied in geological history,” Sylvain Bouley, a planetary scientist at France’s University of Paris-Saclay, told AFP. Its journey dates back to the early days of the solar system, “about 80 million years after the planets began to form”, said Bouley, who co-authored the new study on the meteorite.

It is impossible to know the geological history of the formation of our planet, because it has been destroyed by tectonic movements and the subsequent evolution of the earth’s surface. Or maybe not completely impossible… There are very rare clues to this process that may be gleaned from pieces of other planets that have arrived at Earth’s surface in the form of meteorites. In particular, Mars can provide an indication of our planet’s early evolutionary path. More than 4.5 billion years ago, Mars probably had a crust similar to that found on early Earth, and information about this crust may be hiding in the oldest Martian meteorites currently known to have landed on Earth. But first, scientists must identify exactly where the 4.48 billion-year-old meteorite, dubbed Black Beauty, came from on the surface of Mars. Studies published in Nature Communication details the methods the international team used to identify that this piece of Martian rock came from one of the oldest regions on