UCR professor of Earth and planetary sciences, Mary L. Droser, has been awarded the 2022 National Academy of Sciences Award in Early Earth and Life Sciences. This award is also known as the Charles Doolittle Walcott Medal. According to their website, the NAS is a “private, non-profit society of distinguished scholars. Established by an Act […]
Primordial earth and its ancient atmosphere had no lightning until later when atmospheric changes jumpstarted it and began the chemical basis of all protean life.
Early Earth is often described as Hadean for good reason. Arising from the ashes of a collision that gave us our Moon, the primordial eon was characterized by hellish heat trapped beneath a thick blanket of carbon dioxide and water vapor.