It was found in the Moroccan part of the Sahara Desert in 2011. Scientists immediately determined that it was a fragment of Martian rock. At the moment, the “Beauty” is recognized as the oldest sample from the surface of Mars!
The basalt that forms its basis froze 4.44-4.48 billion years ago, or just a hundred million years after the birth of the Solar System itself.
She is literally “as old as the world”
