Redefine the Martian meteorite age

New research shows that most of the Martian meteorites on Earth are less than 4 billion years old.

Collaborating with US and British colleagues, scientists at the University of Western Ontario (Canada) said the finding deciphered the puzzle that has long been in the field of science studying Mars.

Martian meteorite pattern at the Royal Ontario Museum - (Photo: Royal Ontario Museum)

The report also shows a clearer picture of the barren red planet's evolution compared to Earth's life-sustaining, according to Nature.

The team used the meteorite collection of the Royal Ontario Museum to cite.

They point out that these meteorites are derived from a 200 million-year-old lava flow on Mars, containing chemical imprints that show that the rock beneath the planet's surface dates almost at the same time as the solar system.

When inspecting crystals that appear on the surface while meteorites travel from Mars to Earth, scientists can limit the departure time less than 20 million years ago.

Also based on that information, experts simultaneously identified places that most likely produced meteorites, namely from super-volcanic slopes in the Martian equator.