We now have a treasure trove of rocks that will let us systematically study the processes that people believe are relevant to the emergence of life on the planet.
Scientists are interested in how mantle rocks could have created the chemical interactions that led to life, but recovering samples has proved challenging.
They struck pay dirt this time, though, by drilling into a "tectonic window" in the seafloor where the mantle is much more exposed.
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