China Focus: Chinese scientists show interest in Martian meteorite research – Xinhua | English.news.cn – Xinhua

BEIJING, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) — Martian meteorites, seen as gifts from Mars and also a way to study the red planet, have attracted increasing interest from Chinese scientists in the past decades.
Recently, researchers from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics (IGG) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) discovered coesite, a form of silicon dioxide, in a Martian meteorite for the first time, said a report by the Science and Technology Daily.
In the country’s first Mars exploration mission,…

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