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Study: A plunge in incoming sunlight may have triggered “Snowball Earths” – Mirage News
Findings also suggest exoplanets lying within habitable zones may be susceptible to ice ages. …
Findings also suggest exoplanets lying within habitable zones may be susceptible to ice ages.
The trigger for “Snowball Earth” global ice ages may have been drops in incoming sunlight that happened quickly, in geological terms, according to an MIT study.
Image: NASA, Christine Daniloff, MIT
At least twice in Earth’s history, nearly the entire planet was encased in a sheet of snow and ice. These dramatic “Snowball Earth” events occurred in quick succession, somewhere around 700 million years a…
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