🔥 Mind-blowing discovery alert! Chinese researchers just cracked a 4-billion-year-old mystery: how Earth went from a molten hellscape to the blue marble we call home. A team from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry has revealed that our planet’s deep mantle acted like a giant underground water bank during its fiery infancy!
Using lab experiments hotter than your favorite TikTok trends (we’re talking magma-level temps 🔥), scientists proved water could bond with minerals deep below Earth’s surface. This cosmic storage system might explain how oceans formed – and why we’re not all living on a dried-up space rock. 💦
Lead researcher Dr. Li Xiaoding told us: "This changes how we see Earth’s evolution. That water survived planetary pandemonium – asteroid impacts, volcanic Armageddon – to create life’s playground." 🌱
The study, published today in Science, could help us understand water on exoplanets too. Next stop: rewriting astronomy textbooks! 📚✨
