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Solar system is estimated to be about 4.57 billion years old: Research
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Our solar system is estimated to be about 4.57 billion years old. Previous analyses of ancient meteorites have shown that minerals were created through chemical reactions with water as far back as 4.5 billion years ago. New findings from the Ryugu asteroid samples indicate that carbonates we
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Martian meteorite contains large diversity of organic compounds
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The Martian meteorite Tissint contains a huge diversity of organic compounds, found an international team of researchers led by Technical University of Munich and Helmholtz Munich's Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin and including Carnegie's Andrew Steele. Their work is published in Science Advances.
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The detective aboard the Perseverance Mars Rover
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 27 (ANI): Mars is a long way from 221B Baker Street, but one of fiction's best-known detectives will be represented on the Red Planet after NASA's Perseverance rover touches down on Feb. 18, 2021. SHERLOC, an instrument on the end of the rover's robotic arm, will h
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4-billion-year-old Nitrogen-containing organic molecules discovered in Mar
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], April 29 (ANI): Using advanced techniques, scientists have detected organic compounds containing nitrogen in Martian meteorites which were ejected from Mars's surface about 15 million years ago.
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