Tissint Martian Meteorite: A Fresh Look at the Interior, Surface, and Atmosphere of Mars

Chennaoui Aoudjehane, H.; Avice, Guillaume; Barrat, Jean‐Alix; Boudouma, Omar; Chen, Guangming; John M. Duke, M.; A. Franchi, I.; Gattacceca, J.; M. Grady, M.; C. Greenwood, R.; D. K. Herd, C.; H. Hewins, R.; Jambon, A.; Marty, Bernard; Rochette, P.; L. Smith, C.; Sautter, V.; B. Verchovsky, A.; Weber, Patrick; Zanda, B.

doi:10.1126/science.1224514

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Tissint Martian Meteorite: A Fresh Look at the Interior, Surface, and Atmosphere of Mars

Published in Science • Oct 13, 2012

Authors:

H. Chennaoui Aoudjehane

Guillaume Avice

Jean‐Alix Barrat

Abstract

Tissint (Morocco) is the fifth martian meteorite collected after it was witnessed falling to Earth. Our integrated mineralogical, petrological, and geochemical study shows that it is a depleted picritic shergottite similar to EETA79001A. Highly magnesian olivine and abundant glass containing martian...

Subject

Martian

Meteorite

Astrobiology

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