Solar wind and space dust create new source of water, laboratory study suggests
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 - 17:00
in Astronomy & Space
Water ice is the most abundant solid material in the universe. Much of it was created as the byproduct of star formation, but not all. John Bradley of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and his team may have discovered a new source of water in our solar system. His lab experiments reveal that the solar wind may be creating water on interplanetary dust.