Jupiter Water
Letter from the Permian Basin
A meteorite from an asteroid belt near Jupiter crashed here in the 1990s.
It was the first-ever discovery of liquid water in an object from space, poetically landing in a relatively waterless part of the world. At one point, this area was an ocean filled with aquatic life. Today it is not a desert but technically a semi-arid ecosystem.
Photographs of quartz sandhills and an iris in the dunes. Monahans, Texas.
