giant impact
06/05/2018
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By Edsel Cook
A giant impact on Mars that happened billions of years ago explains why the Red Planet is filled with iron
The mantles of Earth and Mars boast a lot of iron and “iron-loving” metals, more than what should be present from planetary formation. In a Space.com article, a new study suggests that these metallic bounties resulted from the impacts of giant space rocksĀ in the distant past. Planets start out as tiny grains of cosmic dust […]
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