Path of the solar system through the Local Interstellar Cloud. The cloud’s profile is preserved as an interstellar fingerprint in Antarctic ice. (IMAGE)

Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf

Path of the solar system through the Local Interstellar Cloud. The cloud’s profile is preserved as an interstellar fingerprint in Antarctic ice.

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Path of the solar system through the Local Interstellar Cloud. The cloud’s profile is preserved as an interstellar fingerprint in Antarctic ice.

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B. Schröder/HZDR/ NASA/Goddard/Adler/U.Chicago/Wesleyan

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