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In a geologic triumph, scientists drill a window into Earth’s mantle

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    The way that some of the mantel rocks happened to be closer to the surface without being in the mantle kind of reminds me of how we have some rocks from Mars...

    The way that some of the mantel rocks happened to be closer to the surface without being in the mantle kind of reminds me of how we have some rocks from Mars

    A Martian meteorite is a rock that formed on Mars, was ejected from the planet by an impact event, and traversed interplanetary space before landing on Earth as a meteorite. As of September 2020, 277 meteorites had been classified as Martian, less than half a percent of the 72,000 meteorites that have been classified.[1] The largest complete, uncut Martian meteorite, Taoudenni 002,[3] was recovered in Mali in early 2021. It weighs 14.5 kilograms (32 pounds) and is on display at the Maine Mineral & Gem Museum.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_meteorite