
The biggest piece of Mars on Earth is being auctioned off in New York
The biggest piece of Mars on Earth is being auctioned off in New York
This is the first time such an historical and rare..
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun. It is also known as the "Red Planet", because of its orange-red appearance. Mars is a desert-like rocky planet with a tenuous carbon dioxide atmosphere. At the average surface level the atmospheric pressure is a few thousandths of Earth's, atmospheric temperature ranges from −153 to 20 °C and cosmic radiation is high. Mars retains some water, in the ground as well as thinly in the atmosphere, forming cirrus clouds, frost, larger polar regions of permafrost and ice caps, but no liquid surface water. Its surface gravity is roughly a third of Earth's or double that of the Moon. It is half as wide as Earth or twice the Moon, with a diameter of 6,779 km (4,212 mi), and has a surface area the size of all the dry land of Earth.
The biggest piece of Mars on Earth is being auctioned off in New York
This is the first time such an historical and rare..
The meteorite was discovered in Niger in November 2023 and is 70% larger than the next biggest piece of Mars recovered on Earth.