"Alien" Atmosphere Helped Unfreeze Early Earth

Wednesday, January 14, 2009 - 12:42 in Earth & Climate

Chemical signatures in 635-million-year-old rock suggest our planet once had an otherworldly atmosphere that might have helped melt millions of years' worth of deep freeze.

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