Has Martian dust been brought back to Earth???

[Jazza11]

I wanted to know if Nasa has brought back any samples of Mars dust or rocks???

[DavidU]

Hi Jazza, no mars samples from NASA.
However there is 30 or so meteorites found on earth that came from Mars.
So we kinda do have some samples...............
http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/snc/

[OneOfOne]

I have some pieces of these meteorites myself, as well as meteorites from the Moon and Vesta.

[Waxing_Gibbous]

We evidently have enough of our own and don't require any "foreign" dust, thank you very much! :D

[Ric]

How do scientist's determine that a meteorite has come from Vesta or Mars?

That must be an awesome bit of detective work.

[renormalised]

They look at the chemical and mineralogical composition of the samples and match them to studies done of those objects using spectrographs and such.

[glenc]

I think so, it landed in Eastern Australia today. :lol: