“It is remarkable that a molecule as fragile as ribose could be detected in such ancient material,” Jason Dworkin, one of the study's co-authors, pointed out. “These results will help guide our analyses of pristine samples from primitive asteroids Ryugu and Bennu, to be returned by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa2 and NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.”
The Hayabusa2 spacecraft, which is on its way back to Earth, fired a "bullet" into the asteroid Ryugu in February to collect material from the space rock. OSIRIS-REx, which is orbiting the asteroid Bennu, has made several incredible discoveries on the space rock, including the presence of water .
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Alien enthusiasts should not miss these 8 extraterrestrial movies
International Business Times, Singapore edition present you the list of top eight alien movies that every movie buff should watch.
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'War of the Worlds' is a 2005 film directed by legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg. The film which starred Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Miranda Otto, and Tim Robbins was based on HG Well's book of the same name.
'War of the Worlds' also earned three Academy Awards nominations for Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Sound Editing. The film was a blockbuster, and it collected $591 million worldwide.
First Evidence of Bio-Essential Sugars in Meteorites
Researchers from Tohoku University, Hokkaido University, JAMSTEC, and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center investigated meteorites and found ribose and other sugars. These sugars possessed distinct carbon-isotope compositions, differing from terrestrial biological sugars, indicating their extraterrestrial origin. The results suggest that the sugars formed in the early solar system and made their way to earth via meteorites.
The team analyzed three meteorites with their original protocol and found sugars in two meteorites. “Analysis of sugars in meteorites is so difficult. Over the past several years, we have investigated the techniques of sugar analysis in such samples and constructed our original method” says lead author, Yoshihiro Furukawa of Tohoku University.
MIT researchers are building a tool to study genetics on Mars — Quartz
Christopher Carr couldn't see the wood he was supposed to be walking on. The ad-hoc boardwalk running through this part of British Columbia had sunk beneath a quicksand-like mud. He proceeded slowly, each step a piece of guesswork.
This trip, in late 2018, wasn't Carr's first outdoor adventure. He's trekked to a polar desert, old mines that seep acid, and an active volcano. Pontefract traveled back to the hypersaline lakes in interior British Columbia this September to gather some more samples—ramming sediment corers into the salty lake bottoms, setting up gas samplers, and toting samples back to the lab for analysis.
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First Kolumbo, next the moons | Community | ekathimerini.com
Robots used in last week’s international oceanographic seabed survey of Kolumbo, a submarine volcano about 7 kilometers northeast of the island of Santorini, discovered hitherto unknown hydrothermal vents forming cylindrical chimney structures, around which are flourishing bacterial communities.
The mission, funded and supported by NASA and Maritech International, consisted of 30 scientists from the US, Greece, Australia and Germany and tested new “intelligent” technologies with autonomous underwater vehicles that could be used in the future to explore extraterrestrial oceans such as those on Jupiter’s moons Enceladus and Europa.
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