{"id":131744,"date":"2021-12-03T23:25:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T07:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/part-of-earths-water-came-from-the-sun-new-study-suggests"},"modified":"2021-12-03T23:25:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T07:25:18","slug":"part-of-earths-water-came-from-the-sun-new-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/part-of-earths-water-came-from-the-sun-new-study-suggests","title":{"rendered":"Part of Earth\u2019s Water Came from the Sun, New Study Suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/part-of-earths-water-came-from-the-sun-new-study-suggests.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Earth was very water-rich compared to other rocky planets in the Solar System, with oceans covering more than 70% of its surface, and scientists had long puzzled over the exact source of it all,\u201d said Professor Phil Bland, director of the Space Science and Technology Centre at Curtin University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn existing theory is that water was carried to Earth in the final stages of its formation on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/C-type_asteroid\" target=\"_blank\">C-type asteroids<\/a>, however previous testing of the isotopic \u2018fingerprint\u2019 of these asteroids found they, on average, didn\u2019t match with the water found on Earth meaning there was at least one other unaccounted for source.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur research suggests the solar wind created water on the surface of tiny dust grains and this isotopically lighter water likely provided the remainder of the Earth\u2019s water.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Earth was very water-rich compared to other rocky planets in the Solar System, with oceans covering more than 70% of its surface, and scientists had long puzzled over the exact source of it all,\u201d said Professor Phil Bland, director of the Space Science and Technology Centre at Curtin University. \u201cAn existing theory is that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131744","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}