Aug
26
Picture of the Week #7
Filed Under Picture of the Week
Fragment of the Nakhla meteorite that fell to Earth in 1911. American Museum of Natural History, August 2006
This meteorite is one of the SNCs, or “snicks”, a class of meteorite that has one very interesting thing in common - they are all from Mars. This wasn’t the first time I have seen a chunk of Mars, that honor goes to a fragment of ALH84001 in Washington D.C. (which I’ll post a photo of eventually), but it is always thrilling to be just a few inches from a piece of another planet.