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The Atacama Desert in Chile has been used as a way to simulate alien environments, like Mars on Earth. Now, researchers believe it was the site of an ancient comet explosion intense enough to create giant slabs of silicate glass, according to a new study.
Heat from a comet exploding just above the ground fused the sandy soil into patches of glass stretching 75 kilometers, a study led by Brown University researchers found. PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Around 12,000 years ago, something scorched a vast swath...
The pieces of dark green or black glass, which came to scientists' attention a decade ago, are clustered in a corridor stretching 50 miles across Chile's Atacama Desert, experts at Brown University said.
Around 12,000 years ago, something scorched a vast swath of the Atacama Desert in Chile with heat so intense that it turned the sandy soil into widespread
The Atacama Desert in Chile has been used as a way to simulate alien environments, like Mars on Earth. Now, researchers believe it was the site of an ancient comet