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The sending of a spacecraft in an asteroid near the earth, gathering the dust and the rock of its surface, and the return of the rare cache to our planet was one of the most daring exploits of NASA to this day.
And now the daring mission Osiris-Rex has scientific fruits.
When the spacecraft ended its long return trip over a year ago, NASA divided a sample of 120 grams, collected in October 2020 with the Bennu asteroid, among researchers from all over the world.
This week, scientists who analyzed the rubble reported their first detailed results. The fascinating results highlight the origins of life.

Two studies published on Wednesday revealed that asteroids contained many chemical elements of life, such as amino acids and components found in DNA.
In addition, researchers discovered salts in Bennu cache and crucial minerals for life, including some never seen in asteroid samples.
“All this is very exciting because it suggests that asteroids like Bennu actually acted like giant chemical factories in space and could also have delivered raw ingredients for life on earth and other bodies of our solar system,” said Declared Dr. Daniel P. Glavin, principal scientist for a return sample to the Goddard Space Flight Center in NASA in Greenbelt, Maryland.
The corals appear stationary, permanently anchored on rocks or other areas of the seabed.
However, new research has shown that a species of mushroom coral, cycloseri cyclolites, actively moves to blue light waves, using a mechanism similar to the pulsating movement of jellyfish.
Recipe areas where C. cyclolites are generally living in high energy areas with strong waves and significant competition for space. These conditions oblige the members of the species – measuring up to 3.5 inches (9 centimeters) – to move surprisingly quickly towards deeper waters.
These corals, which are common throughout the Indo-Pacific region, start life in one place but become more mobile as they ripen.

Thousands of working hours can enter a red carpet dress or a royal wedding dress. But these efforts are pale compared to the outfits of developed pearls made about 5,000 years ago in the southwest of Spain.
Student archaeologists 270,769 shell pearls discovered at the tomb of Montelio, which is part of the Valencin archaeological site near Seville, believe that they were put on together to make shimmering outfits carried by women.
The pearl collection is the largest documented worldwide and has taken 10 people working eight hours a day for 206 days, about seven months.
The spectacular outfits highlight the formidable status of women, which have been buried in pearl outfit, in prehistoric society which has once populated the Valencina site.
Just after sunset on January 16, Lori Kaine, a resident of Providencials, the main island of the Turkish archipelago and caicos in the North Atlantic Ocean, heard a deafening noise and looked up.
“I have never seen colors like that in the sky,” said Kaine. “At first, I thought it was a real plane that exploded.”
In fact, it witnessed the explosion of the upper stadium of a launch system of SpaceX Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, which can one day transport humans on the moon and March. The spacecraft had separated a few minutes after takeoff in southern Texas during its seventh test flight.
In the coming days, Kaine and other residents have found debris from the explosive accident strewn their aisles and beaches.
SpaceX’s response to the incident aroused criticism, which raises wider questions about the company’s approach to develop starship and its decision to launch test flights from the vehicle outside the southern Texas on a path that prevents the spaceship on the populated areas.
Meanwhile, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, veterans astronauts in the center of the drama of Boeing Starliner, occupied their prolonged stay, coming out for a space walk after more than seven months in orbit.

The elusive creature pointed out its long muzzle towards the sky, in break a moment after eating flour worms.
Mount Lyell’s Musagaigne was not aware that it was the first of his species to be photographed by humans – in particular the recently graduated fauna photographer, Vishal Subramananan, as well as scientific students Prakrit Jain and Harper Forbes.
The trio has ventured in eastern Sierra Nevada and captured six Shrews Mount Lyell live (Sorex Lyelli). There, the team photographed and observed before freeing them.
The small animal was previously the only species of known mammal in California to have escaped human cameras, according to the California Academy of Sciences.
Make up of these stories expanding the mind.
– A small rock of space that persisted near the earth last year could be a piece of the moon that cut thousands of years ago.
– Two buried “supercontinents” hiding inside the earth could be much older than we thought before.
– Scientists took a new time on the day’s clock, a symbolic attempt to assess how close humanity is to destroy the world.
– Blue Ghost Lunar Lander from Firefly Aerospace documents his journey to the Moon, and the views are breathtaking.
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