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 More Quotes by Rajdeep Dasgupta More Quotes From Rajdeep Dasgupta 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 top-news 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
