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Ingredients for Life On a Comet, and Mars’s Close-Up

How did earth get the ingredients for life? A new discovery from Comet 67P might hold some answers. And learn where to find Mars in the night sky from 75 million kilometers away.

Host: Hank Green

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Image Sources:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Comet_on_7_July_2015_NavCam.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Candidate_landing_site_I_(15041248971).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Methylamine.png
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ethylamine-2D-flat.png
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cell_membrane_detailed_diagram_4.svg
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