Earth's Water Origins Revealed

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Scientists have found the origin of WATER on Earth

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Scientists from the University of Oxford used a powerful X-ray beam to study rare meteorite.

They found that the material in the meteorite was 'incredibly rich' in hydrogen, which forms water when combined with oxygen.

This suggests that water did not need to be delivered from asteroids after all.

Instead, the ingredients for the water in our oceans and rivers were part of Earth from the very beginning.

This doesn't mean that none of Earth 's water came from asteroid impacts, since we have good evidence that some water on the planet's surface was delivered in this way. However, this shows that some of the water on the surface and most of the water in the interior, which is the majority on the planet, was there from the beginning. Dr Bryson says: 'Our findings just show that there was enough hydrogen in Earth from its inception to form abundant water - we don't know when or how that happened, but we hope our research will inspire those questions to be examined.'.

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