{"id":266484,"date":"2024-12-11T22:36:13","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T22:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/11\/earth-may-have-had-its-water-delivered-by-a-vast-cloud-of-vapour\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:10:09","slug":"earth-may-have-had-its-water-delivered-by-a-vast-cloud-of-vapour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/11\/earth-may-have-had-its-water-delivered-by-a-vast-cloud-of-vapour\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth may have had its water delivered by a vast cloud of vapour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" width=\"1348\" height=\"900\" alt=\"Artist's impression of a rocky and water-rich asteroid being torn apart by gravity\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11141245\/SEI_232670154.jpg\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1288px) 837px, (min-width: 1024px) calc(57.5vw + 55px), (min-width: 415px) calc(100vw - 40px), calc(70vw + 74px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11141245\/SEI_232670154.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11141245\/SEI_232670154.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11141245\/SEI_232670154.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11141245\/SEI_232670154.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11141245\/SEI_232670154.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11141245\/SEI_232670154.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11141245\/SEI_232670154.jpg?width=837 837w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11141245\/SEI_232670154.jpg?width=900 900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11141245\/SEI_232670154.jpg?width=1003 1003w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11141245\/SEI_232670154.jpg?width=1100 1100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11141245\/SEI_232670154.jpg?width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11141245\/SEI_232670154.jpg?width=1300 1300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11141245\/SEI_232670154.jpg?width=1400 1400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11141245\/SEI_232670154.jpg?width=1500 1500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11141245\/SEI_232670154.jpg?width=1600 1600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11141245\/SEI_232670154.jpg?width=1674 1674w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11141245\/SEI_232670154.jpg?width=1700 1700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11141245\/SEI_232670154.jpg?width=1800 1800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11141245\/SEI_232670154.jpg?width=1900 1900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11141245\/SEI_232670154.jpg?width=2006 2006w\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-image-context=\"Article\" data-image-id=\"2460181\" data-caption=\"The sun may have created a vast mass of water gas by heating asteroids\" data-credit=\"ESA\/Hubble Copyright: NASA, ESA, M.A. Garlick (space-art.co.uk), University of Warwick, and University of Cambridge.\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">The sun may have created a vast mass of water gas by heating asteroids<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">ESA\/Hubble Copyright: NASA, ESA, M.A. Garlick (space-art.co.uk), University of Warwick, and University of Cambridge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>A vast cloud of vapour expelled from boiled asteroids may have lingered in the solar system for millions of years before raining down on Earth, according to a new idea for how our planet got its water.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn28485-origin-of-earths-water-traced-back-to-the-birth-of-our-planet\/\">origin of Earth\u2019s water<\/a> has long puzzled scientists. It is hard to argue that our planet has always had the water we see today, because the young sun would have been so\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2460173-earth-may-have-had-its-water-delivered-by-a-vast-cloud-of-vapour\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The sun may have created a vast mass of water gas by heating asteroids ESA\/Hubble Copyright: NASA, ESA, M.A. Garlick (space-art.co.uk), University of Warwick,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":266485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}