Glasses strewn across the desert (IMAGE)

Brown University

Glasses strewn across the desert

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Deposits of dark silicate glass are strewn across a 75-kilometer corridor in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. New research shows that those glasses were likely formed by the heat of an ancient comet exploding above the surface.

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P.H. Schultz/Brown University

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