Carbon and water collected from Bennu's asteroid sample, will help unfold many scientific mysteries
By-Srushti sharma
NASA recovered a sample from the 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu and returned it to Earth.
The sample contains indications of both water and a high carbon content, which together may suggest that the rock contains the building elements of life as we know it.
This discovery was included in an early evaluation of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.
NASA aims to provide answers to the issues of our origins and identity.
This will provide us with a better understanding of potentially dangerous asteroids and a window into the future.
Future examinations of the asteroid sample should benefit from this initial discovery
Even though further research is need to fully understand the nature of the carbon molecules discovered.
hoping to learn more about how our solar system came to be and how life's ancestors might have arrived on Earth.
As we peer into the ancient secrets preserved within the dust and rocks of asteroid Bennu, we are unlocking a time capsule that offers us profound insights into the origins