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Alien vitamins sample
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- The Hayabusa2 spacecraft spent a year and a half gathering rock samples from the asteroid Ryugu.
- Organic compounds essential for life have been discovered these samples.
- The compounds discovered include niacin, which is also known as vitamin B3, and uracil.
- It is one of the four nucleobases (nitrogen-containing compounds), that make up RNA.
- These molecules contain the instructions of how to build living organisms.
- Hayabusa2 was launched in December 2014 by the Japanese space agency JAXA.
- It reached its target, the space rock Ryugu, in June 2018, stayed for a year and a half to gather samples, and returned them to Earth in December 2020.
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