Squeezing Meteorites to Reveal the Martian Mantle--- Experiments at high temperature and pressure give clues to the composition of the interior of Mars.
A piece of a Martian lava flow, Antarctic meteorite Yamato-980459, appears to represent the composition of a magma produced by partial melting of the Martian interior. That's the view of researchers Don Musselwhite, Walter Kiefer, and Allan Treiman (Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston) and H...
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.603.8299 http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/Dec06/PSRD-Y-980459.pdf |