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Comet Meteor Shower Put Magnesium and Iron into Martian Atmosphere
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The places where the red line on this graph extends higher than the blue line show detection of metals added to the Martian atmosphere from dust particles released by a passing comet on Oct. 19, 2014. The graphed data are from NASA MAVEN spacecraft.
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Credit lineComet Meteor Shower Put Magnesium and Iron into Martian Atmosphere. NASA/JPL, 2014-11-07. Public domain. ID: PIA18857.
