Earth may have an inbuilt water factory. Deep inside the hot mantle, the conditions are right for chemical reactions to turn hydrogen and rock into water. This might mean our planet's water originated from within, rather than arriving from space through collisions with ice-rich comets - the leading theory at the moment. And this newly formed water is under such high pressure that it could be triggering deep earthquakes whose origins have so far remained unexplained.
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