Asteroids: Spark of Life? Preview
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What if violent asteroid impacts actually jump-started life on Earth? Explore a dramatic theory.
What if asteroids, long feared as destroyers of life, were key to our existence? Explore a revolutionary theory that these violent collisions provided the essential ingredients – water, minerals, and energy – needed to jumpstart life on Earth.
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Asteroids: Spark of Life? Preview
Preview: Season 53 Episode 1 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
What if asteroids, long feared as destroyers of life, were key to our existence? Explore a revolutionary theory that these violent collisions provided the essential ingredients – water, minerals, and energy – needed to jumpstart life on Earth.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- [Narrator] Asteroids, agents of destruction, but in early Earth, did they make life possible?
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When Earth Was Bombarded by Asteroids
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