{"id":226979,"date":"2025-12-12T07:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/how-earths-mantle-locked-away-vast-amounts-of-water-in-early-magma-ocean"},"modified":"2025-12-12T07:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:06:12","slug":"how-earths-mantle-locked-away-vast-amounts-of-water-in-early-magma-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/how-earths-mantle-locked-away-vast-amounts-of-water-in-early-magma-ocean","title":{"rendered":"How Earth\u2019s mantle locked away vast amounts of water in early magma ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-earths-mantle-locked-away-vast-amounts-of-water-in-early-magma-ocean2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some 4.6 billion years ago, Earth was nothing like the gentle blue planet we know today. Frequent and violent celestial impacts churned its surface and interior into a seething ocean of magma\u2014an environment so extreme that liquid water could not exist, leaving the entire planet resembling an inferno.<\/p>\n<p>Since 70% of Earth\u2019s surface is now covered in oceans, the mystery of how water survived and preserved on our planet from an early molten to a mostly solid state has long been a subject of scientific study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some 4.6 billion years ago, Earth was nothing like the gentle blue planet we know today. Frequent and violent celestial impacts churned its surface and interior into a seething ocean of magma\u2014an environment so extreme that liquid water could not exist, leaving the entire planet resembling an inferno. Since 70% of Earth\u2019s surface is now [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226979","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=226979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}