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US senators question Robert F Kennedy Jr at heated confirmation hearing
We're not saying that there was life on Bennu. I don't see any evidence for that. But what we are saying is that we see this whole array of really complex, useful for life organic molecules, plus water, plus these salts would have provided lots of bioessential elements.
Global News Podcast
US senators question Robert F Kennedy Jr at heated confirmation hearing
And we imagine in the early salt system, asteroids like Bennu may have been raining down on the earlier, would have provided this sort of package of all of these nutrients that the Earth needs to eventually become habitable.
Global News Podcast
US senators question Robert F Kennedy Jr at heated confirmation hearing
It enables us to answer these really, really big questions about where life began and who doesn't want to know about how life started here.