After the Sky Fell

Watch the film, then use its viewing guide to separate the immediate impact, the food-web crisis and later recovery. Which proposed survival advantages depend on the setting?

Use the illustrated Earth and Moon view to place impacts within planetary history. This is a context model, not a reconstruction of the Chicxulub collision.

Trace the sequence from lost sunlight to survivors, recovery and cooling crater environments. Identify where an observation gives way to a model or a wider inference.

Compare hydrothermal duration, sulfur isotope interpretation and Martian mineral alteration. Which measurement supports each claim, and what would go beyond it?

Follow Hapcheon’s impact evidence, later lake layers and geochemical interpretation. Keep this younger lake setting distinct from Chicxulub’s cooling hydrothermal system.

Explore the illustrated planet and its geological variety. This Atlas does not recreate Ritchey crater’s measured mineral map or show evidence of Martian organisms.

Examine possible early-Earth chemical refuges. Why would a model of favorable conditions, or later life in a crater, fall short of locating the origin of life?

Inspect the imagined exoplanet. Use the earlier records to write one supported claim, one inference and one open question. What must the artwork’s caption avoid implying?