Meteorite Reveals More than 2 Billion Years of Magma Activity on Mars (2 of 3) (IMAGE)

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Meteorite Reveals More than 2 Billion Years of Magma Activity on Mars (2 of 3)

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Photo shows the lead author Thomas Lapen performing a mass spectrometry experiment. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 1 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by T.J. Lapen at University of Houston in Houston, TX, and colleagues was titled, "Two billion years of magmatism recorded from a single Mars meteorite ejection site."

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[Credit: Chris Watts]

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