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Mars Meteorite

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Shown below is a meteorite, that shows layers of ancient water.

Mars Meteorite shows layers of ancient water.

Meteorites And Planetary Organic Matter

Briggs, Michael H.

...the recent discovery of petroleum-like hydrocarbons within carbonaceous meteorites has raised an interesting problem. Either the meteorite hydrocarbons are part of the remains of an extra-terrestrial life-form, or they are abiotic compounds formed in space. ...raises the question of whether any of the organic constituents of terrestrial petroleum are compounds brought to earth by meteorites.(Briggs, 1962)

Observatory, 82:216-218, 1962.

Biological Materials In Meteorites: A Review

Urey, Harold C.

...as briefly reviewed above, strongly suggest that biogenic materials exists in these meteorites and that it may be indigenous(Urey, 1966).

Science,151:157-166, 1966.

Hydrous Minerals In Meteorites

Hughes, David W

...Meteoritic minerals are nearly always fresh and undecomposed--- which contrasts with many of the water-containing products of weathering and erosion which occur in such profusion on Earth.
...water must have been present during the formation of this shocked olivine, and that the meteoric mineral originated on a body in the solar system that had a hydrous atmosphere.(Hughes, 1975)

Nature,256:697, 1975

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