More than 45,000 meteorites have been collected from Antarctica, not because more fall there, but because flowing ice carries dark rocks into blue-ice stranding zones while the wind strips away snow, concentrating pieces of the Moon, Mars and asteroids on one enormous white surface

The world's greatest meteorite collection exists not because Antarctica attracts space rocks, but because the continent's ice and wind are nature's most efficient sorting machines. The post More than 45,000 meteorites have been collected from Antarctica, not because more fall there, but because flowing ice carries dark rocks into blue-ice stranding zones while the wind strips away snow, concentrating pieces of the Moon, Mars and asteroids on one enormous white surface appeared first on Space Dai