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Is water present on a comet?

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12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Yes. Probes have been flown through the tail of a comet and have detected frozen water particles. The current theory is that comets are big dirty snowballs that may have been responsible for seeding the Earth with water and possibly life.

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