Purdue University is in Indiana, United States. In 1931 a black stone was found here in a drawer. None of those present knows how this stone got into that drawer. But the color, shape and structure of the stone that came out of the box was different. Therefore the investigation began.
For 92 years it was only known that it was a stone from another planet. But a recent study has revealed that this stone, known as the Lafayette meteorite, comes from Mars. How did the black stone emerge from red-colored Mars? The gases present inside this 2-inch-sized stone revealed that it is a stone from Mars.
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Evidence of this was also found on NASA’s Viking lander. That he had examined similar stones on Mars. This stone was also examined. The gases present inside were studied. It was revealed that it was formed by mixing ancient minerals and liquid water. This study was recently published in Geochemical Perspective Letters. Diary It has been published in.
Seas of ice and rivers of hot lava
Marissa Tremblay, an assistant professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at Purdue University, said there is currently not enough water on the surface of Mars. But this stone tells us that there was water on Mars 742 million years ago. In fact, there was already water in permafrost millions of years ago. But due to magmatic activity, i.e. lava flow, they melted. They evaporated into steam.
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A stone had fallen near a boy who was fishing
There is no concrete information about when this stone arrived on earth. But people in Indiana say that in 1919, some boys went on a fishing trip. Then this meteorite fell near a boy who was fishing. The boy picked it up after it cooled down. After examining the stone, it was discovered that this stone separated from Mars 11 million years ago due to the collision of some stones. Which fell to earth while spinning in space.
