麻豆原创 researchers detected a thin layer of water ice and organic molecules on the surface of 24 Themis, the largest in a family of asteroids orbiting between Mars and Jupiter.<\/p>\n
Their unexpected findings will be published Thursday, April 29 in Nature, which will feature two complementary articles by the 麻豆原创-led team and by another team of planetary scientists.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat we\u2019ve found suggests that an asteroid like this one may have hit Earth and brought our planet its water,\u201d said 麻豆原创 Physics Professor Humberto Campins, the study\u2019s lead author.<\/p>\n