Unexpected discovery: Age of water

Everyone knows Earth, the Sun is very old

Everyone knows Earth, the Sun is very "old", but there are things "older" than them, and surprisingly, that is . the water that you still drink every day.

Why does water cover most of the earth? Scientists have hypothesized that water on our planet originated from floating ice cubes in the cosmic cloud . Even the water appeared before the sun, more than 4.6 billion years ago.

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Water on our planet comes from ice blocks floating in the cosmic cloud.

This also means that the daily water of people and water in the oceans can now be millions of years older than the sun.

More specifically, huge ancient ice sheets existed in the chaos of the process of forming the solar system and then came to earth. To prove this, scientists analyzed water molecules in the oceans.

Traces to find clues are heavy water , containing deuterium isotope ratios. Water with deuterium is found in other planets, including the moon. Thus, it is possible that a large amount of heavy water forms in the interstellar clouds and then into the solar system.

Using computer simulations, scientists came to the assumption that ice molecules that were billions of years old existed after an intense radiation explosion of the sun, then poured into the earth and the nearby planets.

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Traces to find clues are heavy water.

According to scientists, the remnants of such ice sheets still exist in the solar system: On the Moon, comets, Mercury's stars, Mars, and Jupiter's moon Europa. That kind of water is also the water that people still drink daily.

Update 18 December 2018
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