Other "non-negligible" changes in water and mass distribution may have played a role in polar motion between 1993 and 2010 — including shifts in natural lake levels, mantle convection and ...

The distribution of water on the planet affects how mass is distributed. Like adding a tiny bit of weight to a spinning top, the Earth spins a little differently as water is moved around.

Water may be generated on the moon as the result of high-energy electrons bombarding the lunar surface as it passes through Earth’s magnetic tail.

Water has power. So much power, in fact, that pumping Earth’s groundwater can change the planet’s tilt and rotation. It can also impact sea-level rise and other consequences of climate change.

A man walks across the dry bed of Lake Ahmad Sar in India in 2015. The total amount of water in Earth’s lakes, rivers and soils has drastically dropped since the turn of the century, a new study ...

“Planets are much more water-abundant than previously assumed,” says Dorn. Understanding evolution history. Water distribution is also important if we wish to understand how planets form and develop.