Standard Model Does Little To Explain Why Earth Is So Dry
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Despite seventy percent of the Earth’s surface being covered by water, in reality the whole of the planet is only made up of 1 percent water, making it relatively dry compared to the gas giants, such as Jupiter and Neptune. And now, that dryness, which has long perplexed scientists, has been explained by a team of scientists working at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STSI) in Baltimore, Maryland. The standard model suggests that our world should be much more watery, as the...
Published By: RedOrbit.com: Space - Wednesday, 18 July, 2012


