Asteroids Pummel Early Earth (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Asteroids Pummel Early Earth

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Artist's concept of meteors impacting ancient Earth. Some scientists think such impacts may have delivered water and other molecules useful to emerging life on Earth.

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab

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