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To: SunkenCiv
the water on Mars arrives from space...

As in, a certain amount of space dust is ice (thus, arriving continuously) or just in the form of comets that strike once in a zillion years?

14 posted on 10/10/2011 10:34:26 PM PDT by marron
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To: marron; SunkenCiv; All

In a book Impact Earth: Asteroids, Comets and Meteoroids: The Growing Threat by Austen Atkinson, I seem to remember reading that we get a regular rain of ice here on earth from comet dust and space debris. Unfortunately, the book does not have a very good Index so I couldn’t find the info. on how many tons a year are added to our water supply.


15 posted on 10/11/2011 10:04:56 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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