Where does Earth’s oxygen come from? A new study hints at an unexpected source
The amount of oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere makes it a habitable planet. Twenty-one percent of the atmosphere is made up of this life-giving element. But in the distant past – as far back as the Neoarchean era 2.8 to 2.5 billion years ago – this oxygen was almost absent. So how did the Earth’s atmosphere …
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