Big revelation: Life’s ingredients found in NASA’s asteroid Bennu sample
Scientists found 11 minerals in Bennu samples, including calcite, halite, and sylvite, that form when water with dissolved salts evaporates over time, leaving solid crystals. Similar brines have been detected on Ceres and Enceladus.
Dworkin is the project scientist for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission ... Afterward, they measured which type of amino acid each ribozyme preferred. To make it clear, ribozymes are like tiny tools ...
The Bennu discovery helps to illuminate how, early in the Solar System’s history, asteroids and other planetary building blocks were not just “lumps of stone and ice, but active ‘living’ objects”, ...
The study of asteroid samples is a highly lucrative area of research and one of the best ways to determine how the Solar ...
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