{"id":4384,"date":"2021-12-02T14:11:27","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T21:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/astronomy-and-planetary-science\/?p=4384"},"modified":"2022-01-12T14:14:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T21:14:06","slug":"solar-wind-contributions-to-earths-oceans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/solar-wind-contributions-to-earths-oceans\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar wind contributions to Earth\u2019s oceans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Loeffler is a co-author on a new manuscript in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41550-021-01487-w\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nature Astronomy<\/a><\/em>.  This was a large collaborative work combining laboratory studies and analysis of grains from Itokawa.  The results suggest that much of the water in Earth&#8217;s oceans could have originated from water created from solar wind implantation onto rocky airless bodies, such as asteroids. The work has been picked up by a few news organizations.<\/p>\n<p>\nFrom <strong>Newsweek Magazine<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/solar-winds-sun-helped-deliver-water-earth-create-oceans-luke-daly-astronauts-1654861\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Solar Winds Could Have Helped Deliver Water to Earth and Make Oceans<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nand from <strong>NPR (KJZZ)<\/strong>:  <a href=\"https:\/\/kjzz.org\/content\/1737735\/asteroids-itokawa-might-help-solve-mystery-earths-water-source\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Asteroids like Itokawa might help solve mystery of Earth&#8217;s water source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Loeffler is a co-author on a new manuscript in Nature Astronomy. This was a large collaborative work combining laboratory studies and analysis of grains from Itokawa. The results suggest that much of the water in Earth&#8217;s oceans could have originated from water created from solar wind implantation onto rocky airless bodies, such as asteroids. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[210],"class_list":["post-4384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy-and-planetary-science","tag-solar-wind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4384"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4386,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4384\/revisions\/4386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}