Not all meteorites brought water to Earth

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They discover that those that had to endure great temperatures at the beginning of the history of the Solar System contain practically no

In the illustration, the dashed white line shows the boundary between the inner and outer solar systems, with the asteroid belt lying between Mars and Jupiter. The bubble at the top left shows water molecules attached to a piece of rock, which could then have carried that water to Earth. Jack Cook/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Jose Manuel Nieves

16/03/2023

Updated at 10:35 a.m.

71% of the Earth’s surface is covered by water. Without it, life on our planet would not be possible as we know it. Seas, rivers, lakes, rain… Water seems to be everywhere. But where exactly did that…

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