Meteorites may have brought water to Earth in the recent past
from the Department of Earth Sciences at the University Adelaide is co-author on a new paper published in Science on the 8 January 2021.
Some meteorites that fell to Earth relatively recently may have contained liquid water within the past million years. This means space rocks might have delivered water to our planet鈥檚 surface throughout its history rather than just very early on.
Subscribers to Science can read 鈥淐arbonaceous chrondite meteorites experienced fluid flow within the past million years鈥 by Turner, S., et al, Science, Vol 371, Issue 6525, pp. 164-167, 8 Jan 2021.