Bennu asteroid reveals its contents to scientists − and clues to how the building blocks of life on Earth may have been seeded
New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...
Bennu asteroid samples yield watery history, key molecules for life
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ingredients essential to life, such as water, phosphate, and ammonia. Together, ...
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The Bennu asteroid reveals clues to how the building blocks of life on Earth may have been seeded
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale of rock, ice and water that hints at how life could have formed on Earth.
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‘Chemical time capsule’: Asteroid Bennu’s salts tell tale of early solar system
“We were surprised to identify the mineral halite, which is sodium chloride — exactly ... electron microprobe analysis, X-ray diffraction, and transmission electron microscopy.
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Bennu asteroid reveals its contents to scientists − and clues to how the building blocks of life on Earth may have been seeded
The samples are mostly water-rich clay, with sulfide, carbonate and iron oxide minerals ... These included CT scanning, electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction, each of which allowed us to ...
Asteroid Ryugu samples suggest presence of salty water in outer solar system
Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision.