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This means that the Earth has fewer older craters on its most stable regions not because of erosion, but because the impact rate was lower prior to 290 million years ago, the Moon is like a time capsule, helping us understand the Earth. We found that The Moon shared a similar bombardment history, which meant the answer to Earth's impact rate was staring everyone right in the face.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
We can now apply this technique to study the surfaces of other planets to find out if they might also show more impacts, our findings also have implications for the history of life, which is punctuated by extinction events and rapid evolution of new species. Though the forces driving these events are complicated, asteroid impacts have surely played a role in this ongoing saga.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
In a sense, the asteroid belt has been an eyewitness to multiple 'drive-by shootings' from the earliest time in solar system history, by reading the traces left behind, we can use asteroid samplesto tell us who did it, when they did it and how they did it.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We can now use asteroids, for the first time, to tell us about many of the major events that took place in the inner solar system during the planet-formation era, this gives us a new window on a time period which has been virtually unknown up to now.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
To understand the formation and evolution of our world as well as those in the inner solar system, we need to understand the timing of major events during the planet-formation era.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
In an explosion, there is often collateral damage, where nearby buildings and innocent bystanders are affected, investigators can learn about the explosive device and the explosion itself by studying what happened to people, infrastructure, and whether trace amounts of the explosive device can be found among the blast damage. Here, the 'innocent bystanders' were the main-belt asteroids.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
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