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Why Do We Believe the SNC Meteorites Came from Mars

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Why do we believe the SNC meteorites came from Mars?


A) They were brought back by the return voyage of the Mars Pathfinder mission.
B) Their fall to Earth was tracked by radar, so it was possible to reconstruct their trajectories.
C) Radioactive minerals in the rocks allow us to date them from approximately the same time as similar layers on Mars.
D) Trapped pockets of air in the rocks show compositions which match Martian atmospheric samples taken by the Mars landers.

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