An underground ocean three times larger than all our oceans combined

A revolutionary discovery has turned our understanding of the Earth’s hydrosphere on its head: a gigantic reservoir of water, hidden between 400 and 600 kilometers below the surface, is thought to contain three times as much water as all the Earth’s oceans.

A discovery that defies imagination

Researchers have uncovered the existence of a hidden ocean deep beneath the Earth’s surface, trapped in a mineral called ringwoodite. This rock, with its exceptional properties, can absorb water into its crystalline structure under extreme conditions of pressure and temperature. Scientists…