Two rocks fell from space

More than 100 years ago, two rocks of Mars landed in Egypt, more precisely in the delta region, inside a small farming village. The rocks in their crust carried many secrets on Mars, arousing the curiosity of scientists to study them.

The study of rocks has settled the controversy between scientists to prove the existence of water on Mars. The study was published in the US newspaper Since Advances last Wednesday. According to the Invers site, the rocks were formed following the fall of meteorites on Earth in this region in 1911.

The two meteorites were named Palm, a village in the province of Beheira, in northern Egypt, where meteorites fell and now contain traces of water activity on Mars there millions of years ago.

By examining pieces of different meteorites, scientists were finally able to demonstrate the impact of asteroids on Mars, as some parts of the ice layer melted beneath the surface of the planet, causing a flow of ice. 39 water through the cracks of the rocks.

The study revealed that the rocks passed through the asteroids twice before landing on Earth: the first impact occurred on Mars about 633 million years ago, where the water source formed on its surface, and the second time an asteroid collided with these rocks, about 11 million years ago, Meteorites flew from Mars into space before ending up on Egyptian soil in 1911.

Scientists are searching for answers to the mysteries of the existence of water on Mars by continually seeking to find any kind of life on the red planet.

Although most of the water on Mars today exists in the form of ice, some evidence suggests the presence of ancient lakes on its surface, and more recently, a study published in Science magazine in 2018 showed that the lake could fall under a layer of ice in the South Mars pole.