Martian meteorites are like a great novel, spinning out the history of the Red Planet.
With each look, scientists read a new twist to the plot, and every now and then, they find a whole new chapter. This meteorite found in the Sahara Desert, Lucky 13, was recently confirmed to be from Mars. British scientists this week announced they had positively identified a rock found in the Sahara as the 13th known Martian meteorite. While the meteorite, dubbed Lucky 13, will certainly shed new insights, scientists are far from finished scrutinizing the first 12. The current issue of the journal Meteoritics and Planetary Science alone contains 19 papers on the Martian rocks.