More information: Richard C. Greenwood et al. Oxygen isotopic evidence for accretion of Earth's water before a high-energy Moon-forming giant impact, Science Advances (2018).DOI: 10.1126/sciadv ...

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Areas in green show where water has turned ... the water on the Earth's surface has changed over 30 years. They found that 115,000 sq km (44,000 sq miles) of land is now covered in water and ...

It was therefore suggested that water might come from space rocks rich in hydrogen or covered with ice ... have been part of its structure before it arrived on Earth. Co-author Dr James Bryson ...

While modern Earth’s surface is about 70 percent water-covered, the new research indicates that our planet was a true ocean world some 3 billion years ago. At this point, only scattered ...

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The findings may help explain how Earth’s surface ended up covered in water. New measurements from the Herschel Space Observatory show that Comet 103P/Hartley, which comes from the distant ...