@brutamerica: After seven years, a sample collector that was sent to space to potentially reveal the origin of life on Earth by NASA was opened. In a live webcast on Wednesday, NASA revealed the contents of Osiris-Rex, which was on a mission to collect material from the asteroid Bennu. This asteroid is millions of miles away, but experts believe may hold answers to the formation of planets like the Earth. The collector capsule returned to Earth in September, landing in Utah, and was taken away by scientists to study its contents. What they found appeared to be rocks and dust from space. “Initial studies of this asteroid sample show evidence of high concentrations of carbon and water, which, when found together, are among the building blocks of life as we know it on Earth,” NASA said in a statement online. ⁣ Photo: NASA

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Thursday 12 October 2023 02:23:40 GMT