Carbon-rich liquid water discovered in ancient meteorite

A report from Ritsumeikan University states that there is a lot of water in the solar system. Even beyond Earth

Scientists have discovered ice on the Moon and in the rings and comets of Saturn, liquid water on the Red Planet and beneath the surface of Enceladus, and traces of water vapor in the scorching atmosphere of Venus.

Scientists wanted to know if inclusions were presentliquid water in the form of calcium carbonate (calcite) in a class of meteorites known as carbonate chondrites. They come from asteroids formed in the early history of the solar system. The team studied samples of the Sutter's Mill meteorite, which formed on a 4.6-billion-year-old asteroid. The results of their investigation were published in an article for the magazineScience Advances.

Researchers used advanced techniquesmicroscopy to study fragments of the Sutters Mill meteorite. They found a calcite crystal with nanometer-sized aqueous fluid inclusions that contain at least 15% carbon dioxide. This discovery confirms that calcite crystals in ancient carbonaceous chondrites may indeed contain not only liquid water, but also carbon dioxide.

By obtaining chemical snapshots of the ancient meteorite's contents, his team's work could provide important information about processes that occurred in the early history of the solar system. 

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