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Researchers Find Final Missing Ingredient for Life In a Comet – Interesting Engineering
The mission was executed and controlled from Earth.
We have long pondered how life came to be on our lovely planet and what we know so far is that all biological molecules on Earth consist of six chemical elements: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur (CHNOPS). In the past, we have found most of these elements in comets.
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Four of these (carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen) are the main ingredients of carbonaceous asteroids while the fifth (sulfur) was discovered in…
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