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Cosmic Hotspots for Life

Crater cooling over at least half a million years could have given primitive bacteria enough time to evolve.
By Martin Schmieder & Fred Jourdan
New evidence reveals that large meteorite impacts took long enough to cool for microbial life to emerge and thrive in the wet and warm conditions of the impact crater.
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