OSIRIS-REx 'Touch and go' and the emergence of life elsewhere in the cosmos!
Download MP3OSIRIS-REx is a space craft that visited the asteroid Bennu, returning samples to Earth in late 2023. The first exciting results from the analyses of these samples are just being published. In the first part of the Podcast we talk to Sara Russell about the mission and her recently published results, and then in the second Part we talk to Addy Pross on what the insights mean for the emergence of life elsewhere in the cosmos.
Link to Sara's paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08495-6
Link to Addy's book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Life-Chemistry-Becomes-Landmark/dp/0199687773
Link to Sara's paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08495-6
Link to Addy's book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Life-Chemistry-Becomes-Landmark/dp/0199687773
Creators and Guests
Host
Tim Coulson
Author of The Universal History of Us published by Penguin 2024 Professor of Zoology, University of Oxford EcologyEvolution, Existence, Science
Guest
Addy Pross
Addy is an Emeritus Professor at the department of Chemistry: Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel.
Guest
Sara Russell
Sara is a professor of planetary sciences and leader of the Planetary Materials Group at the Natural History Museum, London. She is a Fellow of the Meteoritical Society and of the Royal Astronomical Society.
