Ancient asteroids created the ingredients for life on Earth – and potentially Mars, scientists say0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 10, 2020
Asteroids crashing into the ocean could have helped create the ingredients for life, scientists say.
Asteroids crashing into the ocean could have helped create the ingredients for life, scientists say.
Two wayward space rocks, which separately crashed to Earth in 1998 after circulating in our solar system’s asteroid belt for billions of years, share something else in common: the ingredients for life. They are the first meteorites found to contain both liquid water and a mix of complex organic compounds such as hydrocarbons and amino acids.
Pluto has long been viewed as a distant, cold and mostly dead world, but the first spacecraft to pass by it last year revealed many surprises about this distant dwarf planet.