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it sounds like finding an earth meteorite on mars would be a huge scientific discovery, because we could look back on early earth
by autokad 9y ago
it sounds like finding an earth meteorite on mars would be a huge scientific discovery, because we could look back on early earth
- dekhn 9y agotons of material is exchanged between the planets annually. It's a sampling problem; you just need enough rovers with detection equipment that can discriminate between the two (not trivial, but totally possible with spectrometry). However, the rock is likely to be contaminated and need careful analysis to be convincing. Easier to just get said rock where it already is found on earth.