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Asteroids hitting Mars could have made hot rain fall for decades

1 March 2019

Asteroids hitting the surface of Mars billions of years ago would have produced enough energy to vaporise ice, creating clouds of hot rain that took decades to clear

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Asteroids hitting Mars could have made hot rain fall for decades

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