Several oceans worth of water found deep inside the Earth.

No need for a Jules Verne reference, these oceans are not in liquid form. Though several of the articles I have seen today ignore that, likely because it is less romantic.



These two care about the facts:



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The water is neither liquid, ice nor vapor, but a fourth form, trapped as hydrogen and oxygen atoms inside the molecular structure of minerals in the mantle rock of the earth. While the amount of water has not been quantified, it could match or even surpass that found in all the earth’s oceans.

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Laboratory studies have shown that the mineral can contain water, which isn't present as liquid, ice or vapor; instead, it is trapped in the ringwoodite's molecular structure as hydroxide ions (bonded oxygen and hydrogen atoms)

And now for the Time article which, as far as I can tell, chooses to not inform the reader about the whole "not in liquid form" part for whatever reason.



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There’s a Huge Underground Ocean... Geologists have found a vast body of water deep below earth's surface... Like something out of early 19th century playwright Jules Verne’s novel, Journey to the Center of the Earth — in which characters stumble across a massive underground basin — a team of geologists led by Steven Jacobsen from Northwestern University have found a vast body of water, three times the size of any ocean, located near earth’s core

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