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Water in differentiated planets, the Moon, and asteroids

Anne H. Peslier and Maria Cristina De Sanctis
Water in differentiated planets, the Moon, and asteroids
Elements (June 2022) 18 (3): 167-173

Abstract

The distribution of water in differentiated Solar System bodies depends on many factors including size, distance from the Sun, and how they incorporated water. Most of this water is likely locked as hydrogen in mantle minerals and could amount to several Earth oceans worth in mass for the largest planets. An essential compound for the development of life, water also has a tremendous influence on planetary evolution and volcanism. Only Earth has an active exchange of water between surface and mantle. Surface water on other differentiated bodies mostly results from degassing by volcanoes whose mantle sources are inherited from magma ocean processes early in their history. Airless bodies also acquire surface water by impacts, spallation, and from the solar wind.


ISSN: 1811-5209
EISSN: 1811-5217
Serial Title: Elements
Serial Volume: 18
Serial Issue: 3
Title: Water in differentiated planets, the Moon, and asteroids
Affiliation: Jacobs, NASA Johnson Space Center, USAUnited States
Pages: 167-173
Published: 202206
Text Language: English
Publisher: Mineralogical Society of America and Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland and Mineralogical Association of Canada and Geochemical Society and Clay Minerals Society, International
References: 32
Accession Number: 2023-001947
Categories: Extraterrestrial geology
Document Type: Serial
Bibliographic Level: Analytic
Illustration Description: illus.
Secondary Affiliation: Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, ITA, Italy
Country of Publication: International
Secondary Affiliation: GeoRef, Copyright 2023, American Geosciences Institute. Abstract, copyright, Mineralogical Society of America. Reference includes data from GeoScienceWorld, Alexandria, VA, United States
Update Code: 2023
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