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The heavy mantle mineral bridgmanite excels astatine trapping h2o successful precocious heat

This artist's rendition depicts nan early Earth covered pinch a fiery basking magma ocean. The cooling magma stored much h2o than erstwhile thought.

During Earth's earliest eon, nan Hadean, nan satellite was covered pinch a heavy ocean of molten magma (shown successful this artist's rendition). As nan magma cooled, it crystallized into rock. That rock, researchers say, whitethorn person held an ocean's worthy of water.

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Early Earth sewage overmuch of its h2o from relentless bombardment by water-rich asteroids and icy comets.

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