A massive field of ancient green glass marks a newly found asteroid strike
Scattered across the Atacama Desert, vast corridors of twisted green glass provide silent testimony to a massive comet or asteroid that exploded over Chile roughly 12,000 years ago.
Centuries of intense heat transformed the desert sand into dark green silicate glass during a prehistoric aerial explosion. These glass fragments stretch across a seventy-five-mile range, showing signs of intense folding and sliding while still molten.
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