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Ancient comet explosion turned the world's driest desert into glass
The dark glass fields that dot the world's driest Atacama Desert were created by a comet that exploded about 12,000 years ago.
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The dark glass fields that dot the world's driest Atacama Desert were created by a comet that exploded about 12,000 years ago.
According to the Daily Mail (UK) on April 27, US scientists have discovered a large desert of glass on the surface of Mars and this may be evidence that there exists lif…