The origin of Earth's water? (IMAGE)
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An illustration showing how some Earth’s signature features, such as its abundance of water and its overall oxidized state could potentially be attributable to interactions between the molecular hydrogen atmospheres and magma oceans on the planetary embryos that comprised Earth’s formative years.
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Illustration by Edward Young/UCLA and Katherine Cain/Carnegie Institution for Science.
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