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Liquid Water Once Flowed on Asteroid Ryugu’s Parent Body, Scientists Say


This water flow occurred on an ancient asteroid more than one billion years after its formation and was probably triggered by an impact that generated heat for ice melting and opened rock fractures for water migration, according to an analysis of material returned by JAXA’s Hayabusa-2 spacecraft.

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