The probe Philae on the comet Churyumov found – Gerasimenko “building blocks” of life – NTV.ru

This is indicated by the first scientific evidence that Philae was in November of last year, during a difficult landing on a comet. However, to obtain and analyze this information was only recently.

An important discovery was the discovery of the comet as much as 16 in the complex organic compounds, and the four of them had never met in comets ?? is methyl isocyanate, acetone, propionaldehyde and acetamide. The European Space Agency noted that these molecules play an important role in the formation of amino acids, sugars and nitrogenous bases that make up DNA. That is in fact found the molecule are members for life.

It should be noted that one of the goals of the mission Rosetta, in which the module Philae was taken over 500 million kilometers from Earth, is precisely to test the hypothesis that Life on our planet could be brought comet.