Meteorites that are expelled from Mars through volcanic activity or impact to the surface of Mars are drawn towards the Sun by gravity and eventually strike Earth as meteors. Scientists discovered that a group of meteors found on Earth in the 1980s seemed to be composed of volcanic material, making Mars, the planet in our solar system with the most recent volcanic activity, the most likely source of the meteors. The Viking Landers gathered data analyzing the atmospheric gasses of Mars and compared it to gasses found in the meteorites found on Earth, confirming their origin.
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