Space is filled with billions and trillions of mysteries and one such mystery of a Mars Meteorite that comes to earth may finally be solved by the scientist also there are many more left researches to be done in space science.

Highlights

• It was found in the Allans Hills in Antarctica on December 27, 1984
• The force to eject rocks from Mars is actually less than the force believed to be earlier
• “Shock Pressure” experienced by Mars rocks as they are ejected from the planet

Scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), faked the shock pressure experienced by the Mars Rocks like they have been ejected from the planet. After experimenting so, they found that it may not be as hard to catapult a rock from Mars to space as earlier believed.

Overall scientists have found that the type of force needed to pelt such rock out of the Mars surface was eventually pelt Earth as the meteorite seems lower than earlier believed.

Such meteorites have been discovered from a variety of sources on the Earth’s surface for thousands of years, but they have not suggested Mars as the source of such bombardment until the 1970s when the calculation of the Martian atmosphere done by NASA’s Viking orbiters found to be gases locked in these space rocks. After all, it remained how these rocks have made it all the way from the Martian Surface to Earth.

“We are not on Mars, so we can’t watch a meteorite strike in person,” one member of the JPL team, scientist Yang Liu said with the statement. Further added “But we can recreate a similar kind of impact in a lab setting. By doing so we found it takes much less pressure to launch a Mars meteorite than we thought.”

To make a journey of such a long distance, a meteorite must have the ability to wear a massive temperature and high pressure including the tendency to get stuck, Because the space is filled with vacuum.

“The more accurately we can characterize the shock pressures experienced by a meteorite, the more likely it becomes that we can identify the impact crater on Mars from which it originated,’ said Asimow, a scientist.