It may strike you as surprising, but water wasn’t always something that the Earth just had plenty of; there was a time, way back in the past, when the Earth was a hot wasteland of boiling lava and vaporized rock. Something happened, however, that suddenly gave our planet the chemical that grants it its distinct blue color—and that’s the part where scientists are still searching for answers.
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