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This week a small piece of rock will be thrown into space on one of the strangest interplanetary trips ever attempted. A small piece of 10p coin-sized Martian basalt will launch aboard an American robot probe on Thursday and propelled toward the red planet on a seven-month journey to its …

A meteorite that was launched from Mars and fell to Earth some 700,000 years ago is now returning to Mars, in what has been described as the “most ambitious” space campaign since Apollo. The rock, known as Sayh al Uhamiyr 008 or SaU 008, was discovered in Oman in 1999 …