The sodium chloride crystals, which only could have formed in the presence of water, were discovered in the sample of asteroid Itokawa that was returned to Earth by Japan's Hayabusa mission back in 2010.
"The grains look exactly like what you would see if you took table salt at home and placed it under an electron microscope," Tom Zega, a professor of planetary sciences at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and senior author of a new paper describing the discovery, said in ...
Publisher: Space.com
Date: 2023-06-22T13:00:11Z
Author: Robert Lea
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