But the timing and mechanism of volatile delivery has been hotly debated, ours is the first scenario that can explain the timing and delivery in a way that is consistent with all of the geochemical evidence. Rajdeep Dasgupta More Quotes by Rajdeep Dasgupta More Quotes From Rajdeep Dasgupta This study suggests that a rocky, Earth-like planet gets more chances to acquire life-essential elements if it forms and grows from giant impacts with planets that have sampled different building blocks, perhaps from different parts of a protoplanetary disk, this removes some boundary conditions. It shows that life-essential volatiles can arrive at the surface layers of a planet, even if they were produced on planetary bodies that underwent core formation under very different conditions. Rajdeep Dasgupta top-news That means we can broaden our search for pathways that lead to volatile elements coming together on a planet to support life as we know it. Rajdeep Dasgupta top-news
