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    Not from around here

    Aug 13, 2020 2 minutes
    by David Grinspoon

    discovered the first extramartian rock in May 2004, it seemed like such a delightful novelty. To travel all that way from our home planet to explore the Martian hills, dunes and craters only to stumble upon a rock that is not from that world! What are the chances that among all the places

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