Rosetta Spacecraft finds building blocks for life in comet

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Scientists for the first time have directly detected key organic compounds in a comet, bolstering the notion that these celestial objects delivered such chemical building blocks for life long ago to Earth and throughout the solar system.

The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft made several detections of the amino acid glycine, used by living organisms to make proteins, in the cloud of gas and dust surrounding Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, scientists said on Friday.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-comet-life-idUSKCN0YI28B

 

[aaronvan]

Nice. I hope Rosetta is followed by a fleet of comet probes, all visiting different comets.

 

[Tinmania]

It also found bits of, what can only be termed as, "code" that seemingly connects two vastly different processors. Strange.



Mike