A massive Mars meteorite sold for a record-breaking $5.3 million at a Sotheby’s auction, making it the highest selling meteorite ever.

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction of rare geological and archaeological objects in New York on Wednesday, while a juvenile dinosaur skeleton went for more than $30 million.

A 54-pound meteorite from Mars is expected to fetch up to $4 million when it goes up for auction later this month at Sotheby's.

The Perseverance rover has made an astonishing discovery on Mars, as it encounters an unexpected and strange feature within the ancient, eroded rock layers at the edge of a once-thriving delta. As the rover traverses these strange terrains,

A meteorite is a meteoroid that "survives" a trip through Earth's atmosphere and lands fully intact, according to NASA. The meteorite was reported to be ejected from the Martian surface due to a "massive asteroid strike" and then traveled 140 million miles through space before landing in the Sahara Desert, according to the release.