Скачать или смотреть You Could Own A Piece Of Mars For A Record-Breaking Price

A 54-pound meteorite from Mars, believed to be the largest piece of the planet currently on Earth, will be sold to the highest bidder later this month in a Sotheby’s auction that is expected to rake in between $2 million and $4 million.

Called NWA 16788, the specimen was found in November of 2023 in Niger’s remote Agadez region, part of the Sahara Desert.

The “once-in-a-generation find” has a red hue and a glassy fusion crust that Sotheby's said suggests it was blasted from the surface of Mars by an asteroid impact so powerful it turned some of the meteorite’s minerals into glass.

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