Scientists have used groundbreaking technology to figure out how the Earth looked a billion years ago - Quartz
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Already, Mueller’s team, working with collaborators at the University of Oslo and Caltech, has completed a stunningly detailed digital reconstruction of 410 million years of earthly history, going back to the collision of then-existing continents that created Pangaea. In January, they plan to release version 2.0 of GPlates, an open-source software model that anyone can use to go back in time to the early days of Earth. Next, they are preparing for peer review of an extension of the model to 1 billion years ago—the era of Pangaea’s ancestor, a supercontinent called Rodinia. Then they will lunge again—to 2 billion years, yet another supercontinent, and the evolution of the first multicellular life.
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