The early Earth didn't have many chemicals needed for life on its surface, but they were present in asteroids and comets. Astronomers think they were delivered by countless objects crashing into the planet early in its history. But there's also a constant rain of organic-rich cosmic dust entering the Earth's atmosphere, and some can even pile up into sedimentary deposits left behind by glaciers. Did cosmic dust help fertilize prebiotic chemistry? The post Cosmic Dust Could Have Helped Get Life G...
The early Earth didn't have many chemicals needed for life on its surface, but they were present in asteroids and comets. Astronomers think they were delivered by countless objects crashing into the planet early in its history. But there's also a constant rain of organic-rich cosmic dust entering the Earth's atmosphere, and some can even pile up into sedimentary deposits left behind by glaciers. Did cosmic dust help fertilize prebiotic chemistry? The post Cosmic Dust Could Have Helped Get Life G...
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