Posted on May 3, 2023, 8:47 pm By professorrosado
Research More At iKnowdle!Pressure required to launch a rock from Mars into space much lower than thought, discovers study
In August 1865, a 10-pound rock fell from space to Earth, landing with a bang in the remote village of Sherghati, India. After being recovered by witnesses to the event, the stone passed into the possession of a local British magistrate who endeavored to identify the source of the strange object. After more than a century of studying the meteorite fragments—so-called shergottites—researchers in the 1980s finally determined its alien origins: our neighboring planet, Mars.
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