Medicine & TechnologyThe "Blaubeuren" meteorite found in a property Germany is considered to be the largest one found in the country. Centuries after hitting the Earth, its existence was finally reported to scientists earlier this year.
Mineralogist Chi Ma from Caltech and his team found three minerals from a meteorite. That Meteorite was found from the Koryak Mountains in eastern Russia. researchers also found metallic Aluminum inside the fragment for the first time.
While many may be familiar with Mars’ dusty red surface from the glow it gives, or even the dust-covered mountains traversed by Mars rovers in the past, a new study of a meteorite found in the Moroccan desert has researchers believing that a far different image of the planet lies just below the thin red dust.
Earlier this past summer when a mysterious giant crater was discovered in northern Siberia’s Yamal Peninsula, many believed the phenomenon to be far too strange to be a natural occurrence. Ironically named “Yamal” which means “the end of the world”, much skepticism surrounded early news of the phenomenon. And when images hit the web a myriad of theories abounded, leading viewers to throw reason to the wind claiming that the crater was either a man-made hoax, a site for a meteorite crash, or even the workings of an alien UFO.