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And scientists also found five nucleobases, which are the components of RNA and DNA. This means that the building blocks of proteins, amyl acid and genetic blueprints, were all found in the same sample. And these prebiotic chemicals got there, according to scientists, by way of water and chemical reactions. And the water likely contained ammonia, which drove the chemical reactions, resulting in amyl acids and nucleotide bases. And this research is just another convincing piece of the puzzle that indicates that life didn't start on Earth from stuff already here, but it was seeded ingredients beyond our solar system. And that's also a good indication too. We're thinking about life here on Earth, and if the building blocks of life are so prevalent in our solar system, when we're actually drawing in samples from asteroids, that it's highly likely that same sort of process helped start life somewhere else out there beyond our solar system. Some other solar system, around some other star system within the Milky Way, it might have gone through that same process. So there could have been life there, maybe evolved into a intelligent life, long before we got here on Earth. Thank you.