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NASA’s Asteroid Bennu Sample Reveals Mix of Life’s Ingredients
Recent findings suggest the conditions necessary for the emergence of life were widespread across the early solar system, increasing the odds life could have formed on other planets and moons.
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OSIRIS-REx scientist, Jason Dworkin, based at NASA Goddard, holds up a vial that contains part of the sample from asteroid Bennu, delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on Sept. 24, 2023.
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A training model of the sample return capsule is seen is seen during a drop test in preparation for the retrieval of the sample return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023, at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range. The sample was collected from asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft and will return to Earth on September 24th, landing under parachute at the Utah Test and Training Range.
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