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Scientists study black beauty from Mars

Updated: January 4, 2013
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CHAMPAIGN-Scientists are trying to find out more about a rock that landed on Earth from Mars.

They're calling the rock Black Beauty.

Its the size of a baseball and landed in the Saharan Dessert.

Tests revealed the rock is more than 2 billion years old and has more water than other meteorites found on earth.

Scientists hope it'll give us a better understanding of the galaxy.

"The earth is like a data point when we study the other planets it helps us learn more about our own," says David leakes,Staerkel Planetarium.

Scientists says Black Beauty would be worth about a million dollars -- but it's scientific value -- priceless.

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