enough water vapor to fill the oceans on Earth five times inside star system!

This is so cool! Check out the rest: spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/releases/ssc2007-14/release.shtml

 

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Use this as the web-page link:

http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/releases/ssc2007-14/release.shtml

Nice report. That's why we launch these observatories.

 

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Welcome to Sciforums, Dr. Spitzer!

 

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There may well be 3-5 times more water in the deep interior of our own planet than there is on the surface. Check this out.

 

Awesome, thanks for the links.

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Starthane.
re: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1997/12/971217071316.htm

I thought when reading this that the notion of the mineral containing the elements necessary for making water must have been used loosly, and that it was water bound up in a crystal. I could hardly believe that a science journal was being so sloppy. But no, it's correct. The mineral contains oxygen atoms as well as atoms of Iron Silicon and Magnesium. Diffused in it is Hydrogen gas.
Squeeze it at enormous pressure between two diamonds and you get water.

Love it.

 

Regarding the recent discoveries indicating that a 3 mile wide comet exploded over the Laurentide ice sheet about 13,000 years ago:


The comet may have been responsible for much more than the extinctions mentioned. The Laurentide ice sheet was several miles thick and covered a vast area of North America. An airburst of this magnitude could have melted hundreds of cubic miles of ice more or less instantly. In the process, it would have vaporized cubic miles of melt water super-saturating the Earth’s atmosphere. The ice sheet was thousands of feet in height. The out-rush of water from the former ice sheet would have created a mega flash flood of vast height and proportion. In many areas it could have been well over a thousand feet in height and hundreds of miles wide. As the mega flood rushed from the Colorado Plateau to the Gulf of Mexico, it would have carved out hundreds of miles of landscape on an unbelievable scale. This could account for many of the spectacular canyons, mesas and other land formations now visible in the American Southwest.
As hundreds of cubic miles of water reached the Gulf of Mexico, it would have caused sea levels to rise hundreds of feet world wide. For those who entertain such ideas, this could also account for Plato’s legend of Atlantis. Plato wrote that Atlantis sunk into the sea during a day and a night of unbelievably torrential rainfall. What might have actually happened was that the super saturated atmosphere released it’s water vapor within a very short time span creating unprecedented epic level rainfall around the globe. As global sea levels suddenly rose, the survivors of Atlantis would have been unable to distinguish this from their island sinking into the sea.
Mega event theories have, until the last few years, been viewed with disdain by the scientific community. Now, however, many such mega events have come to light such as the Montana scablands mega flood, the catastrophic flooding of the Black Sea the super volcano about 70,000 years ago that wiped out about 99% of the human gene pool and many others.
We now know that the slow and gradual processes, that we previously thought shaped the Earth alone, have been punctuated again and again by many mega events of unimaginable proportions.

 

Wild images. We can only imagine what it would be like to be sitting inside the system looking out...

 

I don't know how the ingredients of water can regulate the water on the surface of the Earth when under such conditions:

The wadsleyite in the mantle is at a pressure of about 3 million pounds per square inch and a temperature of about 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit.