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New analysis of asteroid dust reveals evidence of salty water in the early solar system
In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.
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Life's building blocks may have originated in space—Bennu sample suggests
The scientists also found tiny crystals of rare salt minerals called halite and sylvite within Bennu's dust particles. These ...
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Historic asteroid sample reveals the ‘building blocks of life are in fact extraterrestrial in origin,’ scientists say
The Bennu samples revealed magnetite (iron oxide) crystals less than 1 micrometer in size ... McCoy’s team, including 66 researchers across four continents, found the salt and minerals left behind as ...
NASA’s Asteroid Sample Reveals a Shocking Link Between Space and Earth’s Salt Lakes
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission uncovered a cosmic connection between asteroid Bennu and Earth’s Searles Lake. Both contain minerals formed by evaporating salty water, hinting that Bennu’s parent body once ...