Posted on Dec 11, 2018
“With these findings, Ceres has gained a pivotal role in assessing the origin, evolution and distribution of organic species across the inner solar system,” said Southwest Research Institute scientist Simone Marchi. “One has to wonder about how this world may have driven organic chemistry pathways, and how these processes may have affected the make-up of larger planets like the Earth.”
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Posted on Dec 11, 2018
“We’ve seen big things happen in Earth’s history—new species evolved, life persists and species survive. But many species will be lost, and we live on this planet,” says paleoecologist Jack Williams, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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