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(NEW YORK) — NASA revealed on Wednesday that “the building blocks of life on Earth” may have been found in an asteroid sample collected from space. The preliminary analysis of the contents of the OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security — Regolith Explorer) […]
The initial results of studies of samples collected from a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid were unveiled by NASA on Wednesday.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has collected samples from Bennu -- a 4.5 billion-year-old "near-Earth" asteroid that has a slight chance of a planetary collision 159 years from now -- and they could show, as the agency described it, "the building blocks of life on Earth."
Samples of asteroid Bennu delivered by the OSIRIS-REx mission include carbon, water and other ingredients of the primordial Solar System. Samples of asteroid Bennu delivered by the OSIRIS-REx mission include carbon, water and other ingredients of the primordial Solar System.
Test centers within the U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC) have supported the American space mission since its inception.