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Contact: Eric Wolf
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University of Colorado at Boulder
Caption: A new study by CU-Boulder researchers indicates a thick organic haze shrouding Earth several billion years ago was similar to the one now hovering over Saturn’s largest moon, Titan (above) and may have protected primordial life on the planet from damaging ultraviolet radiation.
Credit: Image courtesy NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute.
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