11-ounce (320-gram) space rock contains 10 times more water [photo AFP]

 

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‘Black Beauty’ could yield Martian secrets (via AFP)

A fist-sized meteorite nicknamed “Black Beauty” could unlock vital clues to the evolution of Mars from the warm and wet place it once was to its current cold and dry state, NASA said Thursday. Discovered in Morocco’s Sahara Desert in 2011, the 11-ounce (320-gram) space rock contains 10 times more water…