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According to this 594, 7861 Nature article called First nuclear detonation created ‘impossible’ quasicrystals, the quasicrystals are readily created when where is an explosion or a meteorite impact because they generate a lot of energy. Therefore they should be wherever there are a lot of impact craters.

Have the quasicrystals ever been discovered on the Moon or Mars or are they expected to be found. Can existing rovers identify them if they come across a quasicrystal?

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On Mars, Curiosity has a diffractometer so in principle it should be able to measure the Bragg diffraction that is used to detect quasicrystals. However, such analysis may not have been done yet.

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