eorite’s scientific provenance is honest. Laboratory tests, such as a comparative study with Martian meteorites discovered by the Viking landers in 1976, ratified its classification as an olivine-microgabbroic shergottite. This type of Martian rock is formed by slow cooling of magma deep inside the planet, creating a coarse texture with high mineral and olivine composition. One of the pieces was sent to the Shanghai Astronomy Museum to have it identified, and the scientists there noted the big crystals of magnesium-rich minerals giving way to iron-rich rims a geochemical signature of volcanic activity on Mars. This is in keeping with results for similar shergottites, which preserve coarse-grained texture attributes of slow cooling in Martian crustal magma chambers. These kinds of meteorites are valuable to planetary scientists. As Dr. Jun-Feng Chen of the Chengdu University of Technology explained, “Martian meteorites represent the only direct samples available in laboratory for studying the composition and evolution of the Martian mantle, as most are igneous in origin and retain geochemical fingerprints of mantle processes.” Shergottites, which comprise some 90% of Martian meteorite finds, have yielded information about Mars’ magmatic history and mantle heterogeneity and provided evidence for prolonged cooling, periodic melt extract