But Cordiner, part of the team that used Hubble to detect ionized recent evidence suggests that some or all of the water that forms buckminsterfullerene.25 the ocean was brought via collisions with asteroids or planetesi- mals, perhaps even in the collision that may have resulted in the And finally, space is the only place you can do physics with really ejection of the moon from Earth’s mass.18 hi. [...] The universe is home to unbelievably extreme conditions—in black holes, neutron stars, exploding superno- Measurements from the NASA Dawn spacecraft tell us that as vae, and the relativistically moving jets that occur when matter much as 30 percent of the mass of Ceres, the largest known near the edge of a supermassive black hole is flung out into the asteroid, is water. [...] The Hubble From fundamental laws of physics to the origin of the universe Space Telescope, for example, has not only captured stunning to the origin of life to the near-inevitability of non-terrestrial life— images of other galaxies, it has provided our most accurate esti- there is plenty of science left to be done in space. [...] But even in the shorter run, the frontier of space will The final reason for continued investment in space—and for have salutary effects on our culture and rate of innovation. [...] We are not going to send scientists The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the to Antarctica and withhold life-saving interventions from them if views of the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University or the views of Utah they become necessary, and consequently such a mission would State University.
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