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Researchers have pinpointed the likely origin of a group of meteorites ejected from Mars, using a machine learning algorithm that analyses high-resolution planetary images. The meteorites that landed on Earth likely originated from Mars' Tooting crater located in the Tharsis region of Mars.


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