Puzzle about nitrogen solved thanks to cometary analogs
Friday, March 13, 2020 - 07:10
in Astronomy & Space
One of the basic building blocks of life is nitrogen. An international consortium was able to detect ammonium salt containing nitrogen on the cometary surface of Chury thanks to a method using analogs for comet material. The method on which the study on the detection of ammonium salt is based was developed at the University of Bern.