What was early Earth like? Almost like Venus, research shows – Phys.org

A team of international scientists led by ETH researcher Paolo Sossi has gained new insights into Earth’s atmosphere of 4.5 billion years ago. Their results have implications for the possible origins of life on Earth.
Four-and-a-half billion years ago, Earth would have been hard to recognize. Instead of the forests, mountains and oceans that we know today, the surface of our planet was covered entirely by magmathe molten rocky material that emerges when volcanoes erupt. This much the scientific…

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