NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit
Wheel tracks left by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, and even the rover itself, are visible in this image from the Mars Orbiter Camera on NASA's Mars Global Surveyor orbiter - Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech
Date: 01/20/2010
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NWA 480 - Original stone
A 28 gram stone almost completely covered with fusion crust was found in Morocco in November 2000 - image courtesy Bruno Fectay and Carine Bidaut
Date: 01/20/2010
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NWA 480 - Martian - .002 grams Approved
Our small fragment has been classified as a Martian shergottite - special thanks to Coby Wellshear for this specimen
Date: 01/20/2010
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Happy Face Crater
MOC was greeted with this view of "Happy Face Crater" smiling back at the camera from its location on the east side of Argyre Planitia - Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech
Date: 01/20/2010
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NWA 817 - Original Stone
A 104 gram stone was found in Morocco in December 2000 - image courtesy Bruno Fectay and Carine Bidaut
Date: 01/20/2010
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NWA 817 - Martian - .001 grams Approved
Our tiny fragment is classified as a Martian nakhlite - special thanks to Coby Wellshear for this specimen
Date: 01/20/2010
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NWA 856 - Martian - Original Stone
A single stone of 320 grams was found in Morocco in March 2001 - the meteorite is sometimes referred to as "Djel Ibone" - photo © Bruno Fectay & Carine Bidaut
Date: 11/08/2009
Views: 2019
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NWA 856 - Martian - .015 grams Approved
Martian meteorites are martian rocks that were ejected from Mars by impacts and later fell to the Earth as meteorites - our small piece of NWA 856 has been classified as a martian shergottite
Date: 11/08/2009
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NWA 856 - Martian - .015 grams
Another look at our small Martian fragment
Date: 11/08/2009
Views: 1782
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Mars
Beautiful photo with a hint of the atmosphere on the edges
Date: 04/22/2005
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Viking Lander
Great shot of the Martian surface from the NASA spacecraft
Date: 04/18/2009
Views: 1795
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NWA 998 - Martian - .013 grams total Approved
Adam and Greg Hupé - in collaboration with Dr. Anthony Irving and Dr. Scott Kuehner at the University of Washington - acquired and analyzed NWA 998 - it is an orthopyroxene-bearing nakhlite with a TKW of 456 grams
Date: 01/01/2000
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NWA 998 - Main Mass
The total weight of this stone was 156 grams
Date: 05/31/2009
Views: 1781
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NWA 998 - Martian - .022 grams Approved
Our largest fragment of this Orthopyroxene Nakhlite from Mars
Date: 05/31/2009
Views: 1774
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NWA 998 - Martian - .022 grams
The total weight found was 456 grams
Date: 05/31/2009
Views: 1731
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Spirit Rover
Rock analysis results from the Spirit and Opportunity rovers are used for confirming martian meteorite recoveries
Date: 03/26/2009
Views: 1895
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NWA 1068 - Martian - .210 grams Approved
A superb slice! - NWA 1068 was found in the Moroccan Sahara in April 2001 by a local team called “La Mémoire de la Terre”and given the field name “Louise Michel”
Date: 01/01/2000
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NWA 1068 - Martian - .210 grams
This meteorite is considered to represent a distinct olivine-phyric - or possibly picritic - subgroup of shergottites - the TKW is 577 grams
Date: 01/01/2000
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NWA 1068 - Original Stone
Photo © Bruno Fectay & Carine Bidaut
Date: 05/11/2009
Views: 1942
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NWA 1068 - Martian - .030 grams Approved
NWA 1110 has also been paired with NWA 1068
Date: 01/01/2000
Views: 1746
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NWA 1068 - Martian - .030 grams
Along with the one large 529 gram original stone twenty two small fragments were also found
Date: 05/11/2009
Views: 1784
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