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SkyViking
06-10-2011, 09:02 AM
It seems that comets might have delivered Earth's water after all.
Interesting article here: http://www.universetoday.com/89519/best-evidence-yet-that-comets-delivered-water-for-earths-oceans

Erg
06-10-2011, 12:00 PM
70% plus of Earth covered in water with an avg depth of about 1000m. 1,260,000,000,000,000,000,000 or so litres.

The Late Heavy Bombardment must have been pretty damn heavy to deliver all that water. :eyepop:

Erg

astroron
06-10-2011, 06:42 PM
This is the link to the ESA site ith the Herschel data on it.
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMER89U7TG_index_0.html
Cheers :thumbsup: