Greetings, Mars! I bring you gifts!
NEW SCIENTIST has a piece of Mars, but not for much longer. In May we offered readers the chance to win a genuine scrap of the Red Planet: 1.7 grams of meteorite NWA 2975, to be precise. All you had to do was tell us in 140 characters or fewer what you think the first person to set foot on Mars should say.
This meteorite doesn’t have quite as colourful a story as the pieces of the Dhofar 1180 Lunar meteorite that Michael Farmer collected in Oman, before spending two months in prison there for his troubles, accused of illegal…
