Meteorite can turn Earth into a giant snowball – Nature

2024-02-09 19:00:00

While glaciers and poles are melting today, there have also been completely opposite phases in the history of the earth, some of which lasted tens and hundreds of millions of years. During the most extreme of these cold periods, practically the entire earth was covered by snow and ice, and the glaciation may have even reached near the equator. Since the blue planet became a white one during this time, the phenomenon, which is not without scientific controversy, is also known as “Snowball Earth”.

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