ANOTHER SPIRAL NEBULA
Photo: G. W. Ritchey

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And so with a tremendous slowness through the vastness of time, the earth would grow more and more like the earth on which we live, until at last an age would come when, in the cooling air, steam would begin to condense into clouds, and the first rain would fall hissing upon the first rocks below. For endless millenia the greater part of the earth?s water would still be vaporized in the atmosphere, but there would now be hot streams running over the crystallizing rocks below and pools and lakes into which these streams would be carrying detritus and depositing sediment. kEPWUZo+PXkDzgsYbFkC7vV34t9W3TtxIFsY431GT1nXwxg7K44i9K7VMBMo4cM2