A piece of Mars sold $ 5 million – | Iranian and world news

The Red Planet’s meteorite was discovered in a remote area of the Great African Desert in Niger, according to the .

Meteors of Mars origin are very rare. The reason for these celestial cliffs to Earth is that a first asteroid hits the Red Planet to throw material out of the surface. Next, this piece of the planet has to travel a 2 million mile in space to reach the ground. So far, only the origin of 3 from more than 6,000 meteors has been identified, Mars.

However, the meteorite is known as NWA3. The outer surface, which is reddish -brown, has wounds and symptoms that are very similar to the surface of the red planet on a small scale. It is also a large Martian meteorite and is about 2 percent larger than the second largest on earth. Its size is 1.5 x 2 x 2 inches and weighs 2 pounds.

The rock is large enough to make up about 2.5 percent of all known Mars on Earth. Of course, the winner’s offer for the meteor was $ 1.5 million, but with the fees, the final price reached more than $ 1.5 million and made it the most valuable meteorite sold in history.

Before the auction began, the auction house sent a small piece of this space to a laboratory that confirmed its exclusively Martian chemical compound. More than 5 % of the stone consists of a material called maskelinite, a type of glass caused by asteroid collision with Mars.