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Caption: This is a photo of scientists on a 2003 deep sea expedition looking at a sediment core containing a record of a 65.5 million year old asteroid impact. Scripps paleoceanographer Richard Norris is third from left.
Credit: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego
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