A ‘cosmic clock’ in tiny crystals has revealed the rise and fall of Australia’s ancient landscapes
- Written by Maximilian Dröllner, Adjunct Research Fellow, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University; Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
The remnants of violent stellar explosions where cosmic rays are born.NASA/ESA/The Hubble Collaboration/R. A. Fesen/J. Long, CC BYAustralia’s iconic red landscapes have been home to Aboriginal culture and recorded in songlines for tens of thousands of years. But further clues on just how ancient this landscape is come from far beyond Earth: c...





