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April 4, 2026Updated: April 4, 2026, 12:00 pm EDTPublished: April 4, 2026, 12:00 pm EDT

A massive chunk of Mars that crashed in the Sahara Desert is hitting the auction block in New York this week, with bid expected to reach up to $4 million. Believed to have been blasted off the red planet by a colossal asteroid impact, this rare 33-pound meteorite is the largest Martian rock ever found on Earth and makes up nearly 7% of all known Martian material across the globe.

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