Wednesday, September 10, 2014

FOUR BILLION BCE: BATTERED EARTH


 
"No place on Earth was safe. Four billion years ago, during the Hadean eon, our Solar System was a dangerous shooting gallery of large and dangerous rocks and ice chunks."

(The gif shows impacts over time: “Spatial distribution and sizes of craters formed on the early Earth. Each circle indicates the final estimated crater size; color coding indicates time of impact. Credit: Simone Marchi/SwRI.”)


Four Billion BCE: Battered Earth: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140805.html

Simone Marchi: http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~marchi/
rich pollett

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