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Origin Of Mysterious Twisted Glass Shards In Atacama Desert Discovered

IFL Science 04 Nov 2021
Chile’s Atacama Desert is steeped in mysteries ... That’s not the only puzzle strewn across the soil of the Atacama ... an exploding cosmic fireball, burning the Atacama with such intensity that the ground was forged into glass ... Glass deposits were found across five desert sites.
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In Chile's Atacama Desert, Stargazers Search for 'Dark Energy'

News18 04 Nov 2021
'Dark energy' is a mysterious cosmic force thought to be driving the accelerating expansion of the universe .
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Ancient Exploding Comet Created Glassy Rock Patches in Chilean Desert

Sputnik 04 Nov 2021
A new study published in the journal Geology suggests that the mystery of the glassy rock patches in Chile’s Atacama desert has been solved ... .
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‘Living Worlds’ at California Academy of Sciences is a visual feast for the eyes

San Francisco Examiner 04 Nov 2021
Strict Covid rules apply to admission ... With stars, planets and spacecrafts projected on Morrison’s 75-foot-diameter screen, it’s an amazing journey in which Earth’s past and future space exploration overlap, beginning with the Atacama high desert in Chile, the driest place in the world, with a surface resembling Mars ... IF YOU GO..
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Mysterious shards of GLASS strewn across the Atacama Desert were likely created by an ancient ...

The Daily Mail 03 Nov 2021
Mysterious shards of glass strewn across Chile's Atacama Desert were likely created by an ancient exploding comet, a study has claimed ... Mysterious shards of dark green or black glass strewn across Chile's Atacama Desert (pictured) were likely created by an ancient exploding comet, a new study has claimed.
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Atacama Desert’s mysterious field of glass shards can now be explained, study claims

Penn Live 03 Nov 2021
About a decade ago, scientists became aware of a mysterious field of glass fragments strewn across Chile’s Atacama Desert ... A report by UK Today News said the dark green or black glass is concentrated in patches across the Atacama Desert “east of Pampa del Tamarugal, a plateau in ...
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An ancient fireball turned miles of the world's driest desert into glass

Henry Herald 03 Nov 2021
The Atacama Desert in Chile has been used as a way to simulate alien environments, like Mars on Earth ... The Atacama Desert is the driest desert region on Earth, with incredibly little moisture or precipitation. The fragmented desert glass contains tiny mineral fragments that are often found in meteorites that land on Earth.
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The curious case of the ancient whale bones

Vox 03 Nov 2021
A trove of fossils in the Atacama Desert may hold lessons about the plight of modern whales ... Pyenson, who is also the author of Spying on Whales , was on a research trip in the Atacama Desert in Chile, a beautiful expanse of rock and sand that’s flecked with orange, beige, and purple because of the presence of iron and other minerals.
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The world’s oldest mummies have been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List

Swords Today 03 Nov 2021
kept in museums or buried in the desert ... “Every time it rains, the desert is full of bones ... “Over time, people stopped thinking that chinchillas were just objects of scientific study and began to form emotional ties with the first inhabitants of the Atacama Desert,” says Ariasa.
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A Comet May Have Exploded Over Chile 12,000 Years Ago—and it Could Happen Again

Time Magazine 03 Nov 2021
You wouldn’t want much to do with Chile’s Atacama Desert today ... Shifting trade winds and ocean currents eventually shut off the rain, but even before those terrestrial forces transformed the Atacama, a decidedly extraterrestrial one did too ... As the ancient Atacama reveals, the stakes for such a defensive technology could not be higher.
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Signs of WATER are detected in a galaxy 12.88 billion light years from Earth – ...

The Daily Mail 03 Nov 2021
Using the Atacama Large ... Deep in the Chilean desert, the Atacama Large Millimetre Array, or ALMA, is located in one of the driest places on Earth ... Deep in the Chilean desert, the Atacama Large Millimetre Array, or ALMA, is located in one of the driest places on Earth.
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Ancient Comet May Have Turned Chilean Desert Into Glass

Gizmodo 03 Nov 2021
Nearly 50 miles (80 kilometers) of the Chilean coast are covered with oblong fragments of desert glass that researchers who recently studied them say came from a comet’s explosion over the Atacama Desert about 12,000 years ago. Read more... .
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SF Cal Academy of Sciences film serves up space eels and Daveed Diggs

East Bay Times 03 Nov 2021
The film covers the various ways we are searching for extraterrestrial civilizations as well as how life finds a home even in some extreme conditions on Earth, including the very Mars-like Atacama Desert in Chile, which supports a variety of living things on its stark environment ... Details ... .

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