Why Do Planetary Scientists Believe the SNC Meteorites Came from Mars

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Multiple Choice

Why do planetary scientists believe the SNC meteorites came from Mars?

• A) They were brought back by the return voyage of the Mars Pathfinder mission.
• B) Their fall to Earth was tracked by radar, so it was possible to reconstruct their trajectories.
• C) Radioactive minerals in the rocks allows them to be dated from approximately the same time as similar layers on Mars.
• D) Their chemistries are similar to rocks from Mars's surface, and they contain trace gases that match Martian atmospheric samples.

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