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At 54 pounds, this Mars rock is largest on Earth. It could sell at auction for $4 million

A chunk of the Martian surface that made an unlikely voyage to Earth will be available to the highest bidder at Sotheby's auction in New York.

The Baltimore Sun · 5h

The biggest piece of Mars on Earth is going up for auction in New York

The red, brown and gray hunk is about 70% larger than the next largest piece of Mars found on Earth and represents nearly 7% of all the Martian material currently on this planet, Sotheby’s says. It measures nearly 15 inches by 11 inches by 6 inches.

New York Post on MSN · 4d

Largest chunk of Mars on Earth expected to fetch up to $4M at Sotheby’s auction

In all, there are only 400 known Mars rocks on Earth, comprising less than 1% of all known space rocks on the Blue Planet.

LAist on MSN13h

The first close-up images of Mars still elicit wonder, 60 years after they were captured

Mariner 4, built by JPL in Pasadena, took the images on July 14, 1965. One of the mission's leaders reflects on decades of ...

ScienceAlert on MSN3h

Mars Seen Up Close in Stunning World First 60 Years Ago Today

As it flew by Mars, the spacecraft's onboard camera snapped 22 pictures of the planet's surface, sending them back home to ...

Discover Magazine on MSN13h

Ancient Riverbeds on Mars Suggest Red Planet Was Wetter and More Complex Than Previously Thought

Researchers examining Noachis Terra in Mars’ southern highlands found evidence of extensive river networks – some hundreds of ...

Live Science on MSN4d

Mystery of Mars' missing water could be solved by the planet's tipsy tilt

Mars has lost immense amounts of water over it lifetime, and scientists aren't sure exactly how. New research hints that the ...

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Two meteorites found in the Sahara could be from the solar system’s least studied planet, scientists say

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would ...

Space.com on MSN13h

Happy anniversary, Mariner 4! NASA probe got 1st-ever up-close look at Mars 60 years ago today

After its voyage past Mars, Mariner 4 maintained intermittent communication with JPL and returned data about the interplanetary environment for two more years. But by the end of 1967, the spacecraft ...

LAist20h

The first Mars close-up

Sixty years ago today, NASA’s Mariner 4 spacecraft took the first up-close images of Mars, changing humanity's understanding ...

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Want to own a huge chunk of Mars? It'll likely cost you up to $4 million

A 54-pound meteorite from Mars is expected to fetch up to $4 million when it goes up for auction later this month at ...

5don MSN

We may finally know what happened to the water on Mars

New research might finally help us understand what happened to the water on Mars and rewrite everything we know about the Red ...

The Daily Galaxy on MSN13h

Mars Wasn’t Always Dry: It Once Had Rivers Spanning Over 15,000 Kilometers

Mars, the Red Planet, may have been much wetter in the distant past than scientists ever imagined. A groundbreaking discovery ...

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