Isotopes Say New Origin Stories For Some Planets

If you’ve ever wondered where the Earth came from, the answer, it seems, is blowin’ in the wind–the solar wind. Or so say scientists who, after examining solar wind samples collected by the Genesis spacecraft, conclude that the inner planets of our solar system formed a little differently than we’d thought. The work appears in the journal Science

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Isotopes Say New Origin Stories For Some Planets