The meteorite came to Earth thousands of years ago. Now he would return home to Mars
The Perseverance rover will fly towards Mars on Thursday, but there will also be something on board that is not a scientific instrument. The Martian meteorite, which until now was in the collection of the London Museum of Natural History, will fly to the surface of Mars. So you could say that a piece of Martian rock is coming home. The thoroughly studied properties of the stone will be used on Mars to calibrate the instruments with which the rover is equipped, thanks to which engineers will have greater confidence in the correctness of the results obtained with their help. Perseverance rover This will be especially important if Perseverance comes across any traces of present or past life on Mars, the search for which is one of the mission’s most important goals. This little rock has an amazing history. Formed some 450 million years ago, it was ejected from Mars as a result of an asteroid or comet impact some 600-700 thousand years ago to reach the Earth’s surface some 1000 year...