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A New Study of Lunar Rocks Suggests Earth's Water Might Not Have Come from Meteorites


High-precision oxygen isotopes in Apollo lunar soils reveal a persistent impactor fingerprint, showing that impacts contributed only a tiny fraction of Earth’s water.

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