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Oldest known Mars rock is a ‘Rosetta stone’ for the Red Planet’s watery past


Blasted off Mars by a giant impact long ago, the meteorite Teghaza 001 eventually fell to Earth in the Sahara Desert. Now it’s revealing previously hidden chapters of Mars’s deep past

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