NASA scientists find Earth-like water in passing comet
Now that's what I call high-quality H2O.
Now a new study theorizes that Earth ' s water may have been carried to our planet from ancient comets, millions of years ago. The study 's co-author, Dominique Bockelée-Morvan, a scientist at the Paris Observatory and the French National Center for Scientific Research, said that it's the first time
Water on Earth could have an interstellar origin , according to comet data. “We may need to rethink how we study comets because water released from the ice grains appears to be a “We not only want to understand how Earth ’ s water was delivered, but also if this process could work in other.
© NASA/SOFIA/L. Cook/L. Proudfit Illustration of a comet, ice grains and Earth’s oceans. SOFIA found clues in Comet Wirtanen’s ice grains that suggest water in comets and Earth’s oceans may share a common origin. Water is one of the major building blocks of life and Earth has an abundance of it, as 71 percent of its surface is covered by water, largely due to its expansive oceans. Now a new study theorizes that Earth's water may have been carried to our planet from ancient comets, millions of years ago.
The study, published in Astronomy and Astrophysics Letters, looked at data from NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) and found that there were similarities to the water contained on the comet Wirtanen and the water on Earth.
NASA scientists find Earth-like water in passing comet
Now that's what I call high-quality H2O.
Water on Earth could have an interstellar origin , according to comet data. “We may need to rethink how we study comets because water released from the ice grains appears to be a “We Scientists say a pint-sized meteor that hit Earth ' s atmosphere in 2014 might have come from another star system.
New research shows that water carried aboard comets may originate from the same source as water in the Earth ' s oceans, suggesting that water could “We may need to rethink how we study comets because water released from the ice grains appears to be a better indicator of the overall water ratio
“We have identified a vast reservoir of Earth-like water in the outer reaches of the solar system,” said the study's lead author, Darek Lis, a scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in a statement. “Water was crucial for the development of life as we know it. We not only want to understand how Earth’s water was delivered, but also if this process could work in other planetary systems.”
The study's co-author, Dominique Bockelée-Morvan, a scientist at the Paris Observatory and the French National Center for Scientific Research, said that it's the first time researchers are able to "relate the heavy-to-regular water ratio of all comets to a single factor."
Also known as 46P, the Wirtanen comet was discovered by the American astronomer Carl Wirtanen in January 1948.
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“We have identified a vast reservoir of Earth -like water in the outer reaches of the solar system,” said the study 's lead author, Darek Lis, a scientist at NASA’s Jet We not only want to understand how Earth ’ s water was delivered, but also if this process could work in other planetary systems.
water in the Earth ’ s oceans, suggesting that water could have been carried to our planet by comets millions of years ago." for Scientific Research and second author of the paper, said in a statement, “This is the first time we could relate the heavy-to-regular water ratio of all comets to a single factor.
The researchers found that the water contained an extra neutron inside one of the hydrogen atoms, chemically known as HDO; regular water is chemically known as H2O. The authors concluded that if comets contain the same ratio of water types as Earth's oceans, they may share a common origin.
"We may need to rethink how we study comets because water released from the ice grains appears to be a better indicator of the overall water ratio than the water released from surface ice," Bockelée-Morvan added.
SOFIA is a NASA lab aboard a modified Boeing 747SP jetliner that is able to carry a 106-inch diameter telescope. It is managed by NASA's Ames Research Center and is a joint project between NASA and the German Aerospace Center, DLR.
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New research shows that water carried in comets may originate from the same source as water in the Earth ’ s oceans, suggesting that water could have But the members of the team were surprised when it compared the SOFIA data to older studies of comets, as they discovered that the amount of
Water on Earth could have an interstellar origin , according to comet data. By Georgina Torbet May 26, 2019 9:45AM PST. “ Water was crucial for the development of life as we know it,” Darek Lis, a scientist at NASA’ s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and lead author of the study , said in the statement.
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