Nothing would excite astronomers more than to discover a planet somewhere out there with obvious signs of life, but it just hasn’t happened yet. Earth, we think, is pretty special in its ability to foster life, and as far as we know there’s a few things that are vital for life to exist, one of the big ones being liquid water.
Japan sent its Hayabusa probe to the asteroid known as Itokawa way back in 2003 and some seven years later it returned to Earth’s surface with a sample of the space rock stowed away inside. Those samples have been the subject of much interested in the scientific community, and now a new research paper reveals that the tiny specks of material contain something that could tell us a lot about our own planet: water.
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