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Ryugu-Asteroidenprobe wurde trotz strenger Kontaminationskontrolle schnell von terrestrischem Leben besiedelt

29.11.2024

https://phys.org/news/2024-11-ryugu-asteroid-sample-rapidly-colonized.html

Any_Towel1456 on 29.11.2024 5:10 PM

Probably the same guy contaminating this sample worked in the clean-room with JWST and dropped those bolts in the telescope. Just kidding of course, but humans make mistakes. Even at the top of their respective fields of work.
Raise-The-Woof on 29.11.2024 5:23 PM

The effort to prevent this was pretty wild. At least there’s always knowledge to gain, even among our failures.
Working_Sundae on 29.11.2024 5:28 PM

So is the detection of Uracil on the ryugu sample was also contaminated?

Published on nature last year (March 2023)

Uracil in the carbonaceous asteroid (162173) Ryugu

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36904-3