Rain of asteroids melted early Earth, boiled its oceans, study shows
Wednesday, July 30, 2014 - 19:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
When you look up at the moon’s pockmarked face, you’re actually staring at Earth’s early history. The rain of asteroids that pummeled the lunar surface hit our planet too — it’s just that erosion and plate tectonics blotted out the evidence. In fact, no rocks anywhere in the world survived to...