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Artist's impression of the primeval Earth

Artist's impression of the primeval Earth

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Credit: DAVID A. HARDY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Caption: Artist's impression of the primeval Earth. The cooling Earth was constantly bombarded by planetesimals of all sizes. Atmosphere and water has eroded most of the craters away in the aeons since, but on the other rocky bodies of the Solar System they are still to be seen.

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Keywords: asteroid impact, earth, geology, primeval, science, space art

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