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Largest piece of Mars rock goes for $5.3 million

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Largest piece of Mars on Earth fetches $5.3 million at auction, but young dinosaur steals the show

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction of rare geological and archaeological objects in New York on Wednesday. But a rare young dinosaur skeleton stole the show when it fetched more than $30 million in a bidding frenzy.

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Largest piece of Mars on Earth sells for nearly $5.3 million at auction

Largest chunk of Mars on Earth sells for $5.3 million

Ceratosaur Fossil Auctioned for $30.5 Million by Sotheby’s

Sotheby’s auctioned a dinosaur fossil for $30.5 million on Wednesday.

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Largest piece of Mars on Earth fetches meteoric $5.3 million at New York auction

Largest Mars rock found on Earth sold for $4.3M at Sotheby’s auction

Largest Mars rock ever found on Earth sells for $4.3m at auction

"This is the largest piece of Mars on planet Earth. The odds of this getting from there to here are astronomically small," Cassandra Hatton, vice-chairman of science and natural history at Sotheby's,...

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Martian meteorite sells for record $5.3 million at Sotheby's

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Largest chunk of Mars on Earth expected to fetch up to $4M at Sotheby’s auction

In all, there are only 400 known Mars rocks on Earth, comprising less than 1% of all known space rocks on the Blue Planet.

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Explore the race to Mars! Discover NASA, SpaceX, and China's plans, their groundbreaking goals, and the challenges of reaching the Red Planet.

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The first close-up images of Mars still elicit wonder, 60 years after they were captured

Mariner 4, built by JPL in Pasadena, took the images on July 14, 1965. One of the mission's leaders reflects on decades of studying the Red Planet.