(CNN)-Water molecules have been detected on the surface of asteroids for the first time, proving that these residues from the formation of our solar system are not just dry-up space rock.
Astronomers believe that the effects of asteroids crashed in our planet may have helped to bring water and other elements to the initial earth, so according to a new study, proof of water on asteroids can support that principle.
Data from a device was now collected at the retired stratospheric observatory for the infrared astronomy airborne telescope. Sophia is called, Infrared Telescope rode in a Boeing 747SP aircraft and modified to fly through a stratosphere above 99% of the Earth’s atmosphere, which blocks the infrared light.
The unconscious object infrared camera for Sophia telescope, or forecast instrument, allows astronomers to detect water molecules on iris and masia, two asteroids in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter’s classrooms. Both are more than 223.1 million miles from the Sun.
The findings were published in the Planetary Science Journal on Monday.
Research scientist at Southwest Research Institute at San Antonio. Anisia Deodondo stated that astronomers were motivated to use Sophia to study ascarids after water proofs on the moon.
Mountain view using a separate telescope, research scientist, research scientist, using a separate telescope at NASA’s AIIMS Research Center in California, Koithore Dr. Evidence of hydration was found on the first two asteroids by the study of Maggi McAidam. But the researchers were not sure that the water or any other molecular compounds such as Hydroxil caused hydration, the ardondo said.
“Our new comments with Sophia certainly said that what he saw was really water,” said Adondondo. “But these objects are part of the S-Class of asteroids, meaning that they are mostly made up of silicates, and until the results of Dr. McDam, they were considered completely dry.”
Finding water on dry cosmic surfaces
The team detected the amount of water was broadly equal to the 12-ingented bottle of water trapped within the earthen cubic meter, said, which is compared to Sophia’s moon. In 2020, the telescope raised the signature of water molecules in one of the largest craters in the Southern Hemisphere of the Moon.
Like the water found on the lunar surface, “on asteroids, water can also be obliged to get trapped or dissolved in the silicate and stuck or silicate impact glass along the minerals,” said Ardondo.
When planets are formed in our solar system, asteroids remain left. The study of their compositions can tell astronomers where the asteroids originated in our cosmic neighborhood.
“When the solar system was being formed, various materials were built on the basis of the distance of the sun because the material (distant) from the sun cools the material rapidly (compared) near the sun,” the ardondo said through the email. “This is why internal planets like Earth and Mars are made of rock and outer planets like Neptune and Uranus are made of snow and gas.”
Detection of water on iris and masia can help astronomers to detect the history of these special asteroids, suggests that their formation was far from the sun to boil the boiled water from the heat.
Water discovery in solar system
Researchers tried to find water on two other asteroids using Sophia, but was very unconscious to find out. Now, the team is using the James Web Space Telescope and is searching for zero on different asteroids and signs of water.
While web observation is underway, Arredondo said that initial results have encouraged the team to request time to inspect 30 more asteroids using a powerful infrared telescope.
“JWST telescope is much larger than Sophia telescope, so it can collect data with high quality, and it can collect data for more asteroids in less time,” said the Aredondo. “I hope to be able to observe many different asteroids with JWST to see this signature of water, and hopefully the asteroid will be able to take a list of water in the belt.”
Web can help astronomers better understand the distribution of water in the solar system, as well as the composition of different types of asteroids.
“We were not really expecting to find water on these silicate-rich asteroids,” said Adondo. “Mostly when we talk about hydration on asteroids, we are talking about more carbon-rich asteroids, such as the asteroid Benanu that NASA’s Osiris-Rex Mission has gone. So now I want to find the trends between hydration and the quantity of composition.
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