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Enormous extraterrestrial water even before the formation of our solar system shows universe is teeming with life
Extraterrestrial water is all over the universe. In 1998, a meteorite that whistled into a West Texas yard of America contained the first extraterrestrial water ever captured on Earth.
The meteorite showed that water molecules have come from the universe well beyond our solar system.
According to media in America, Like a cosmic message in a bottle, the microscopic bubbles of primordial water are locked inside crystals of halite, the mineral that makes up table salt, but in this case has been turned blue and purple by radiation. The crystals and their liquid cargo appear to date from the dawn of the solar system about 4.5 billion years ago.
The discovery provides scientists their first chance to study actual samples of water that may have existed in interstellar space before the sun and planets were born. It also suggests that there was much more water on early asteroids than anyone suspected, the researchers said, and it could help reveal the unknown processes by which this essential ingredient of life was distributed in the early solar system.
According to scientists water, oxygen and hydrogen is available all over the universe. These can support life forms of some sorts. These life forms eventually become intelligent and evolve into space explorers.
It is interesting to note how water was distributed in our solar system and how water was brought into the earth.
Scientists have long known that the elements of water -- hydrogen and oxygen -- were plentiful in the solar system from its birth, as they are throughout the known cosmos. And planetary geologists have known that asteroids in the first 10 million or so years of their existence had water running through them. As the solar system formed, much of the available water condensed on the giant outer planets, but some ended up on Earth and the other rocky inner planets.
This just shows that there is a defined mechanism of creating controlled environment where life can be well supported.
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