News · 17 June 2026
Scientists find garnet in Mars rock first time reveals history.
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Scientists found garnet in a Mars rock for the first time, offering new clues to the planet's 4.5-billion-year geological history. An international team, including UK and Canadian researchers, identified it in a Martian meteorite fragment, NWA 8171, initially mistaking it for pyroxene. Garnet forms from extreme heat and pressure on Earth, suggesting impacts or rising magma shaped ancient Mars similarly.
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