The sun may have heated the asteroid and produced huge amounts of water gas
ESA/Hubble Copyright: NASA, ESA, MA Garlick (space-art.co.uk), University of Warwick, University of Cambridge.
A new idea about how our planet got its water suggests that vast clouds of steam emitted by boiling asteroids could remain in the solar system for millions of years before raining down on Earth. It is possible that
The origin of Earth’s water has long puzzled scientists. It is difficult to argue that our planet has always had water as we see it today. Because the young sun was probably like that too…
