Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: BRACK, Dennis
Event Date: after 1984
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.291789

Inscriptions:
Captions: Verso: This meteorite, labeled ALH84001, is believed to have once been part of a 4.5 billion /-year old rock of Mars and to contain evidence that primitive life may have existed on / Mars more than 3.6 billion years ago. The rock is a portion of a meteorite that / was dislodged from Mars by a huge impact about 16 million years ago and that fell to Earth / in Antarctica 13,000 years ago. The meteorite was found in the Allan Hills ice field, / Antarctica, by an annual expedition of the National Science Foundation's Antarctic / Meteorite Program in 1984. It is preserved for study at the Johnson Space Center's / Meteorite Processing Laboratory in Houston. /SPACE: PLANETS: MARS:LIFE /@1996 OWEN D.B.BLACK STARMarkings:Verso: This meteorite, labeled ALH84001, is believed to have once been part of a 4.5 billion /-year old rock of Mars and to contain evidence that primitive life may have existed on / Mars more than 3.6 billion years ago. The rock is a portion of a meteorite that / was dislodged from Mars by a huge impact about 16 million years ago and that fell to Earth / in Antarctica 13,000 years ago. The meteorite was found in the Allan Hills ice field, / Antarctica, by an annual expedition of the National Science Foundation's Antarctic / Meteorite Program in 1984. It is preserved for study at the Johnson Space Center's / Meteorite Processing Laboratory in Houston. /SPACE: PLANETS: MARS:LIFE /@1996 OWEN D.B.BLACK STAR

Tagasauris Keywords: Allan Hills; American Measurement Standard; Antarctica; Bya; Day; Earth; Granite; Houston; Indoors; Male; Mars; Meteorite; Mid adult; National Science Foundation; No Photostyle; Nobody; Nobody; Planet; Rock; Science and technology; Still Life
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY / SPACE
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