Repeated asteroid impacts during Earth’s early history may have pumped so much heat into the planet’s interior that stable continents couldn’t form for hundreds of millions of years.
(CN) — Four billion years ago, Earth was not the stable planet scientists once imagined. It was a battered, half-molten world, pummeled repeatedly by asteroids that kept its crust too hot and weak to survive.
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