Martian differentiation history inferred from copper isotopesOPEN ACCESS 

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De-Liang Wang, Dan Zhu, Ying-Kui Xu, Shui-Jiong Wang, Shi-Jie Li, Zi-Ru Liu, Yang Li, Zhi Li, Hong Tang, Xiong-Yao Li & Jian-Zhong Liu Nature Communications, Volume 16, article number 9298, Published: 21 October 2025 LINK…

Origin of gabbroic shergottite Northwest Africa 6963 from an ~180-million-year-old flood basalt province on Mars

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James M. D. Day, Hunter R. Edwards, Kim Tait, Carl B. Agee MAPS, Version of Record online: 10 June 2025 LINK “To understand chemical variability within individual martian meteorites, we report major, minor, trace, and…

The stable Zr isotope composition of the martian mantleOPEN ACCESS 

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Ninna K. Jensen, Zhengbin Deng, Martin Bizzarro Chemical Geology, available online 26 April 2025, 12281 LINK + PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We report high-precision stable Zr isotope data for a wide selection of martian meteorites using…

Young magmatism and Si-rich melts on Mars as documented in the enriched gabbroic shergottite NWA 6963OPEN ACCESS 

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Miles Lindner, Dominik C. Hezel, Axel Gerdes, Horst R. Marschall, Frank E. Brenker MAPSVersion of Record online: 17 October 2022 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Enriched shergottites contain interstitial Si-rich mesostasis; however, it is unclear…

Constraints on the petrologic history of gabbroic shergottite Northwest Africa 6963 from pyroxene zoning profiles and electron backscattered diffraction

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Andrea Wenzel, Justin Filiberto, Natasha Stephen, Susanne P. Schwenzer, Samantha J. Hammond Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceFirst Published: 20 September 2021 LINK “Northwest Africa 6963 (NWA 6963) is a coarse-grained, gabbroic Martian meteorite that further extends…

Utilization of nondestructive techniques for analysis of the Martian meteorite NWA 6963 and its implications for astrobiology

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do Nascimento-Dias BL, de Oliveira DF, Machado AS, Araújo OMO, Lopes RT, dos Anjos MJ. X-Ray Spectrometry. 2017;1-6. Version of Record online: 24 SEP 2017 https://doi.org/10.1002/xrs.2815 LINK “Martian meteorites are excellent study materials for understanding…

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