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Scientists find evidence of flowing water on Ryugu’s ancient parent asteroid. ‘It was a genuine surprise!’

Scientists find evidence of flowing water on Ryugu’s ancient parent asteroid. ‘It was a genuine surprise!’

Liquid water flowed across the surface of the asteroid that birthed the near-Earth object (NEO) Ryugu much later than scientists had thought possible, a new study finds. The discovery that water existed in liquid form a billion years after the parent body of Ryugu formed came from the study of rock samples collected from the NEO by Japan’s Hayabusa2 probe …

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