Steve Jurvetson / Wikimedia , CC BY-SA In May 2020, some unusual rocks containing distinctive greenish crystals were found in the Erg Chech sand sea, a dune-filled region of the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria. Evgenii Krestianinov PhD candidate, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University On close inspection, the rocks turned out to be from outer space: lumps of rubble billions of years old , left over from the dawn of the Solar System. They were all pieces of a meteorite known as Erg Chech 002, which is the oldest volcanic rock ever found, having melted long ago in the fires of some now-vanished ancient protoplanet.

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