Hydrogen bonded with sulfur may have given our world its first water after the hydrogen broke away and joined with oxygen in the planet’s crust.
O — sulfur — is the reason Earth first got its water, a new study finds, bolstering a similar claim made a year ago. The discovery means our planet was born with all it needed to create its own water and so did not have to receive it from elsewhere.). Now two independent studies of a specific type of meteorite reach the same conclusion: Lots of hydrogen — a key component of water — came to Earth not as HO but instead bonded with sulfur.
The four planets closest to the sun — Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars — all formed in the inner part of the solar nebula, the disk of gas and dust that spun around the newborn sun. The solar nebula’s inner region was so dense that friction heated it enormously, drying it out. Many researchers have therefore proposed that Earth got its water only after ice-bearing asteroids and comets born far from the sun hit Earth.).
“Their arguments about the spectroscopic characterization of where the hydrogen is living in the rock are good,” UCLA cosmochemist Edward Young says of the latest work. That means the hydrogen is native to the meteorite and not the result of terrestrial contamination.
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