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More:High resolution photos of asteroid materials revealed. How NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft brought Bennu sample back to Earth. The findings were reported in two journal articles on Wednesday.

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The Bennu samples from NASA were handled under nitrogen to prevent ... organic molecules with a ring structure containing carbon and nitrogen—using high-resolution mass spectrometry at Kyushu ...

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