Researchers have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in unprecedented samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, adding evidence to the idea that asteroids likely delivered the building blocks of life to our planet early in its history.
The samples are also providing a window into understanding what kind of chemical and biological processes were already underway as space rocks chaotically ricocheted around during the early days of the solar system.
Are we sure it wasn’t just another contamination scenario, seems like its extraordinarily hard to get a clean sample and test it on Earth
I suppose it’s impossible to entirely rule out contamination, but the scientists involved are trying their best, and science is always “as far as we’re able to determine at this moment…” never “that’s the truth, and that’s that.”
Yeah that’s fair, I know the crazy lengths they went to to get a clean sample. I think it was Dr Becky on yt I was watching that said they were being extremely cautious on how to even open the capsule.