Snowball Earth (IMAGE)

Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Snowball Earth

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About 700 million years ago, runaway glaciers covered the entire planet in ice. Harvard researchers modeled the conditions that may have led to this so-called 'snowball Earth'.

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(Image courtesy of NASA)

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