The Cosmic Origins of Earth's Water
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Thank you to brilliant dot org for supporting PBS Digital Studios. Seventy percent of Earth is covered in water. That’s every last drop in the oceans, in clouds, in icecaps, in your body. And even less of that is fresh water. All that water together would fill a sphere only 860 miles (about 1,385 kilometers) in diameter. Water is one of the things that makes Earth so special and without it, life as we know it couldn’t exist. Was our home always a waterpark? If not, how did it all get here? What do we really know about Earth’s H-two-Origins? [INTRO] The solar system formed when a cloud of gas and dust collapsed into a swirling disk. And at least some of that cloud was water. In the orbit where Earth would one day be, the young sun’s intense heat prevented water vapor f...
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Thank you to brilliant dot org for supporting PBS Digital Studios. Seventy percent of Earth is covered in water. That’s every last drop in the oceans, in clouds, in icecaps, in your body. And even less of that is fresh water. All that water together would fill a sphere only 860 miles (about 1,385 kilometers) in diameter. Water is one of the things that makes Earth so special and without it, life as we know it couldn’t exist. Was our home always a waterpark? If not, how did it all get here? What do we really know about Earth’s H-two-Origins? [INTRO] The solar system formed when a cloud of gas and dust collapsed into a swirling disk. And at least some of that cloud was water. In the orbit where Earth would one day be, the young sun’s intense heat prevented water vapor f...
