Scientists made the discovery by assessing over 94 million craters on Mars
Researchers have traced the oldest known Martian meteorite to its exact origin point using artificial intelligence , and the findings could help reveal what conditions on our solar system's planets were like during their very first days.
Scientists believed the meteorite was launched to Earth after a powerful asteroid impact struck Mars, ripping up parts of the planet's crust and sprayed them into space. Now, using a machine-learning algorithm to identify and catalog 94 million craters on Mars, researchers have traced Black Beauty's origin to a small crater within a crater in the Martian southern hemisphere.
The findings suggest the rock was once part of Mars' primordial crust — the Red Planet's original crust that formed soon after its magma ocean cooled and solidified. As plate tectonics destroyed Earth's primordial crust, and the original crust of the moon is buried under thousands of meters of moon dust, this makes the crater especially exciting to scientists who want to study how the bodies of our solar system first formed.
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