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Ice Age Killer

Impact crater found in Greenland | Is this the last Ice Age killer?

Video and still: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Jefferson Beck

Scientists have been wondering what caused the end of the last Ice Age. There are at least a couple of peered-reviewed theories that have shed light into the end of the last Ice Age. These scientists had postulated that it was a collision caused by the impact of a large asteroid that brough the last Ice Age to its end. However, an impact crater had not been found until now…..

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Mars With Clouds

Planet Mars Animation | Rediscovered Astronomy

 

 

Everyone seems obsessed with Mars and how to get us there these days. How would Mars look if it had clouds? Well, recently the Hubble Space Telescope team released a photograph of Mars with clouds. The image showed Mars in a more Earthly fashion than we have seen it before.

 

The following is an animation of the red planet, Mars, with Earth-like clouds in its atmosphere. The global mapping was taken from Viking’s imagery and the clouds were adjusted from an image of Earth’s clouds by NASA.

 

Mars With Clouds | Animation by J.J. Del Mar

 

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