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water  ·  3836 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Massive water source discovered in the Earth's mantle. Could explain Earth's Oceans.

    Earth's mantle is a silicate rocky shell about 2,900 kilometres (1,800 mi) thick[1] that constitutes about 84% of Earth's volume.
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The water must be really strange down there, it probably has it's own convection, pockets of intense heat and pressure... I wonder if there is life down there.