Meteorite from Mars traced to crater where it was ejected by impact
12 July 2022
Researchers used a supercomputer to analyse thousands of images of craters on Mars to find one that matched the properties of an unusual rock
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Found 4 results for asteroid
Group that wants to contact aliens will transmit to TRAPPIST-1 system
12 April 2022
METI, an organisation aiming to make contact with other civilisations, will send out its second message from Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station in Cornwall, UK
The moon's magnetic field may have been altered by huge sinking rocks
13 January 2022
There’s a new explanation for the moon’s former magnetic field, and it involves 60-kilometre-wide slabs of rock sinking through the lunar mantle
The moon may never actually have had a strong magnetic field
4 August 2021
We used to think that the moon had a strong magnetic field like Earth's, but a new analysis of rocks collected by the Apollo missions suggests that previous signs of magnetism came from asteroid impacts instead
