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HOW EARTH GOT ITS WATER

A lot of our water likely came from space, which could be shown by a NASA spacecraft that just returned from a nearby asteroid WORDS ANDREW MAY

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It’s easy to take water for granted on Earth. It surrounds us all the time – in the sea, in rivers and streams, in rain, in clouds even when it’s not raining and in frozen form as snow and ice in winter. But where did all this water come from? In its earliest days, Earth was extremely hot – maybe as high as 2,000 degrees Celsius – so there couldn’t have been any liquid water on the surface at that time. In fact, there are several scientific theories as to how our planet got its water.

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