{"id":11776,"date":"2014-07-08T20:06:59","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T03:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=11776"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:06:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:06:23","slug":"the-planets-biggest-water-supply-might-be-hidden-400-miles-below-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/the-planets-biggest-water-supply-might-be-hidden-400-miles-below-the-us","title":{"rendered":"The Planet\u2019s Biggest Water Supply Might Be Hidden 400 Miles Below the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-name author vcard\"><a class=\"fn url\" href=\"http:\/\/kcampbelldollaghan.kinja.com\" target=\"_self\" data-dropdownhover-anchor=\"1590063135-hovercard\">Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan<\/a><\/span> \u2014 Gizmodo<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"first-text\" data-textannotation-id=\"7b2338c7d9d01de52848cfd1d5896352\">When most of us imagine what the mantle of the Earth is like, we see burning hot rock and magma (and maybe satan hanging out for good measure or something). But scientists have discovered evidence that all that rock may be hiding huge amounts of water\u2014<em>three times<\/em> the volume of all our oceans combined.<\/p>\n<p data-textannotation-id=\"99e3e2bd679313b2ac5123d6d7cdeae9\">The scientists behind the study, which was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/344\/6189\/1265\" target=\"_blank\" data-ls-seen=\"1\">published online today in the journal <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/344\/6189\/1265\" target=\"_blank\" data-ls-seen=\"1\">Science<\/a><\/em>, think they\u2019ve figured out the answer to a question that has long plagued Earth science: Just how much water is there on Earth in total? \u201cI think we are finally seeing evidence for a whole-Earth water cycle, which may help explain the vast amount of liquid water on the surface of our habitable planet,\u201d said study co-author and Northwestern geophysicist Steve Jacobsen to <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2014-06-evidence-oceans-deep-earth.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-ls-seen=\"1\">PhysOrg<\/a>. \u201cScientists have been looking for this missing deep water for decades.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-textannotation-id=\"99e3e2bd679313b2ac5123d6d7cdeae9\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/the-planets-biggest-water-supply-might-be-hidden-400-mi-1590063135\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan \u2014 Gizmodo When most of us imagine what the mantle of the Earth is like, we see burning hot rock and magma (and maybe satan hanging out for good measure or something). But scientists have discovered evidence that all that rock may be hiding huge amounts of water\u2014three times the volume of all [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1507,1508],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental","category-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11776"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64944,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11776\/revisions\/64944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}