Salt crystals—which only forms when liquid water is present—have been found on a sample of an asteroid brought back to Earth as part of a Japanese sample-return mission.
However, it had also been thought that S-type (stony or silicate) asteroids—such asteroid Itokawa, where this sample came from in 2005, brought to Earth in 2010 by the Hayabusa mission—were thought to lack water-bearing minerals.
Publisher: Forbes
Date: 2023-06-16
Author: Jamie Carter
Twitter: @forbes
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