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The building blocks of life are rich in the asteroid sample
NASA scientists revealed what OSIRIS-REx brought back from asteroid Bennu in 2020. Some of Bennu’s sample is 4.7% carbon, the highest ratio of extraterrestrial carbon ever measured, NASA said. It added the carbon and water molecules are “exactly the kinds of material that we wanted to find.” OSIRIS-REx had collected samples from the asteroid in…