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Pay Dirt When NASA's More on OSIRIS-REx: Watch Nasa's Spacecraft Touch Down On A Tiny Asteroid
The finding of minute salt particles in an asteroid sample retrieved by the Japanese Hayabusa spacecraft suggests that the presence of liquid water might be more prevalent among the solar system's largest asteroid population than previously thought. Sodium chloride, better known as table salt, is
Asteroid sample challenges our assumptions about water in space.
The discovery of tiny salt grains in a sample from an asteroid provides strong evidence that liquid water may be more common in the solar system than previously thought.