A new martian meteorite from the Sahara: The shergottite Dar al Gani 489

Martian meteorite Dhofar 019: A new shergottite

1Planetary Geosciences Institute, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-1410, USA 2Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Kosygin St. 19, Moscow 117975, Russia 3Institute of Meteoritics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA 4Department of Civil Engineering and Geological ...

Crystallization Experiments of Dar Al Gani Martian Meteoites: a Preliminary

Introduction: Recently, a lot of basaltic shergottites have been found from the desert areas in northern Africa and Middle East Asia. Most of them contain large olivine grains that are not present in the previously known basaltic shergottites (except for EETA79001). These olivine grains are mostly Mg-rich, but they show different mineralogical features in each meteorite. Dar al Gani 476 and its...

Dar Al Gani 896: a Unique Picritic Achondrite

New Insights on Martian Atmospheric Neon from Martian Meteorite, Dhofar

Introduction: Martian space probe, Viking landers could not measure Ne isotopic ratios, but only had the concentration of Ne as 2.5 ppm (error +3.5, -1.5) in Martian atmosphere [1]. After that, there have been many efforts to determine Ne isotopic composition of Martian atmosphere, by examining the Martian atmospheric gases trapped in impact glasses of the EET 79001 and other shergottites [2-6]...

Carbonates in the Martian meteorite

Despite evidence for liquid water at the surface of Mars during the Noachian epoch, the temperature of early aqueous environments has been impossible to establish, raising questions of whether the surface of Mars was ever warmer than today. We address this problem by determining the precipitation temperature of secondary carbonate minerals preserved in the oldest known sample of Mars’ crust—the...