Using a powerful supercomputer, scientists at Curtin University in Australia have found out the exact location of Black Beauty.
in a region that also contains the oldest rock on the Red Planet. Mars is believed to have originated about 4.53 billion years ago, and surprisingly, one of the Black Beauty fragments is 4.48 billion years of age. Therefore, the place of its origin might unfold important details about the environment, geography, and landscape ofThermal imagery of Mars revealing the location of the Karratha crater marked in the red circle. Source: The total weight of Black Beauty is 320 gms.
The researchers estimate that there are 90 million craters on Mars, and out of those over 80,000 craters have similar dimensions . However, finding one crater out of so many was a big challenge. To solve this seemingly impossible puzzle, the researchers at Curtin found and listed several characteristics. planet not more than 20 million years ago, only the young craters that aged equal to or less than the same were candidates for Black Beauty’s home.
Another characteristic was that the home crater should be surrounded by some secondary craters. According to the researchers, would have formed from the debris of the high-impact collision that occurred at the time of Black Beauty’s ejection. However, even after considering different characteristics and using thermal imaging, scientists were left with numerous craters.To pinpoint the exact crater, scientists further took the help of algorithms created using a powerful supercomputer named Pawsey. The algorithms shortlisted 19 Martian craters that could be considered as Black Beauty’s home.
. Karratha is situated on an ancient crater named Khujirt. Interestingly, Karratha and Khujirt craters didn’t have any names before this study. The International Astronomical Union named the craters after Earth’s Khujirt and Karratha towns, respectively, as per the suggestions of Dr. Lagain and his team.A fragment of the Black Beauty meteorite. Source:Black Beauty is a special Martian meteorite because it comprises fragments of different types of Martian rocks.
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