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NASA ventured into the Valley of 10,000 Smokes, a forbidding land

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In 1912 , a volcano erupted in the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes in Alaska 's Katmai National Park and Preserve .

The valley was suffocated by a gargantuan load of up to nearly 700 feet of grainy volcanic ash.

In June , NASA geochemist Heather Graham entered this remote Alaskan realm to scour the environment for the types of life that may exist on worlds beyond ours.

NASA scientists explore the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes in Alaska 's Novarupta Volcano Valley .

The untrammeled valley can reveal what's transpired on other worlds.

Places on Mars , for example, may have experienced similarly sized or larger volcanic eruptions, which blanketed mighty Martian glaciers in rocky ash.

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88

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89

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46

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informal

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English

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43

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medium-lived

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