
Origins: How did Earth get its water?
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The Origin of Water in the Solar System
Water drives every mechanism on a rocky, plantry body from plate tectonics down to different types of minerals that Earth has. It's a perfect environment for the kinds of chemical reactions that actually create life. We just need the water to keep our cells intact really because cells dehydrate and they start to degrade. And then if you don't get water, you die.
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