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Japan’s Ministry of Education said researchers found 20 types of amino acids in samples collected by the Hayabusa-2 probe from the Ryugu asteroid. As Ukrinform reports, Kyodo News
As Ukrinform reports, Kyodo News reports.
According to a ministry spokesperson, the acids found are essential substances for living things and may provide a key to understanding the origin of life.
Amino acids are substances that make up proteins and are essential for life. Exactly how the amino acids got to the ancient Earth is not yet known, but one theory is that they were brought by meteorites and the amino acids were found in a meteorite found on Earth.
In December 2020, it was noted that the capsule carried during the six-year mission of the Hayabusa-2 spacecraft delivered more than 5.4 grams of surface material from the asteroid Ryuga, located at a distance of more than 300 million kilometers from Earth. planet.
The beginning of the Ryuga study was aimed at unraveling the mysteries of the solar system and the origin of life. Preliminary analysis of the samples showed the presence of water and organic matter.
As Ukrinform reports, last year the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency JAXA announced that it has provided the US agency NASA with samples taken from the surface of the asteroid Ryuga by the Hayabusa-2 spacecraft.
Source: Ukrinform
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