Not only did the Beno asteroid water at some point in its distant past, but also contains very wild residue that contains some basic building blocks of life, according to a team of scientists who studied samples from Space Rock.
A saline solution contains unbeatable compounds in the asteroid samples, including sodium carbonate compounds. A saline solution can also be distinguished from saline samples on the ground, because it is richer in phosphorus – an abundant component of asteroids but is not common on Earth. The team’s results are shaken by the Beno’s story, which was collected in his rocky country by NASA in 2020, and a hint on the roads that life might have been entrenched from the chemical cocktail in the universe.
Two studies published today in nature and Nature astronomy Disclosure of some of the first analyzes made to Bennu samples. The leaves describe the vulgar residue in the samples, which differ from the composition of a saline solution to the Earth, as well as the amino acids to build the five protein and the Newocolis that form building blocks of RNA and DNA. In other words, the sample contains a wealth of materials that shows that the critical ingredients of life as we know are almost on the space rock at the same age of the Earth. The only lost thing, apparently, was young green.
The Osiris-Rex mission was swept away from Bennu when the asteroid was about 200 million miles (322 million km) of the ground. NASA succeeded in bringing samples to the surface of the earth – and after some difficulties – the box that contains rock bits was opened.
The Osiris-Rex team collected more than twice the amount of asteroid materials that they initially hoped to collect (4.29 ounces, or 121.6 grams), and this means that scientists have a lot to work with them because they seek to decipher the history of our solar system and the origins of life itself.
“We now know Pino that the raw components of life were gathered in interesting and truly complex ways on the body of Peno,” said Tim McCoy, meteorological secretary at the National Museum of Natural History in Smithsonian. nature Paper, in Smithsonian Release. “We have discovered the next step on a way of life.”
When asteroids enter into the Earth’s atmosphere, they are subject to extreme conditions, and when they land, space rocks are inevitably covered in a chemical cocktail of the Earth. Bennu samples are particularly useful because the asteroid is not contaminated by Earth’s chemistry, similar to the samples collected from the asteroid Ryugu during the Hayabusa2 mission.
Bennu is actually part of a larger asteroid of about 4.5 billion years-at the same age of our solar system. It is possible that this asteroid contains pockets of liquid water, as scientists believe, and modern evidence on a saline solution on Beno confirms this theory.
The sodium -rich water also evaporated on Bennu, left behind the remains of harsh metal. The water has ended long ago, but the vulgar rocks – festivals rich in sodium, carbon, sulfur, phosphorus, chlorine and fluorine – throw.
Scientists who have examined samples indicate that local flies such as those in asteroid parts may also be found on other bodies in our solar system, including Saturn’s Moon Encelandus and DWARF PLANET CEES. Enceladus is an exciting place for astronomy – the search for life outside the earth – because it is believed to have a surroundings below the surface of the earth from liquid water and it has been photographed as it spits other ingredients for life, including hydrogen and phosphorus.
In 2023, astronomical doctors told Gizmodo how important Bennu samples were to understand the basic building blocks of life and how water reached our primitive world. The new results add a promise and an impure to this noise.
“This is a kind of finding that I hope you do a mission,” McCoy said. “We have found something that we did not expect, and this is the best reward for any kind of exploration.”
The wealth of samples taken from Bennu – AGAIN will continue, almost what scientists plan – in providing valuable visions in the history of our solar system and distributing the main components of life within it. To date, samples are presented to the promise that made Osiris-Rex a convincing task, and our understanding of the universe is the best for her.