It's 70% larger than the next largest piece of Mars on Earth. NWA 16788 was discovered Nov. 16, 2023, by a meteorite hunter in Niger’s remote Agadez region in the Sahara Desert.

The red, brown and gray meteorite is about 70% larger than the next largest piece of Mars found on Earth and represents nearly 7% of all the Martian material currently on this planet, Sotheby’s ...

Martian Meteorite NWA 16788, excavated from Niger’s remote Agadez Region in 2023, is available to all through an online auction with bids already reaching $1.6 million nearly a week in advance.

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just more than $5 million at an auction of rare geological and archaeological objects Wednesday in New York. But a rare young dinosaur ...

A Martian meteorite, weighing 54.388 lbs. (24.67 kg), said to be the largest piece of Mars on Earth, estimated at $2 - 4 million, is displayed at Sotheby's, in New York, Wednesday, July 9, 2025 ...