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The last time I wrote an article here, it was to talk about Afar Region volcanoes, and I promised more to come. This is still a project that I have in mind, but that will have to wait a little ...
Why it's incredible: Evidence suggests it could be the greatest known impact ... corner of the map. A patch resembling a U-shape surrounded by dark blue is the Wilkes Land crater.
Researchers have proposed many origins for a gravity anomaly in Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, but the latest evidence suggests the subglacial hole is an impact crater measuring 315 miles across.
New research in Sweden has uncovered perplexingly high methane emissions coming from the largest meteorite crater in Europe. The Siljan Ring is a prehistoric impact ... to map a larger section ...
New research in Sweden has uncovered perplexingly high methane emissions coming from the largest meteorite crater in Europe. The Siljan Ring is a prehistoric impact structure in ... Researchers are ...
The Chang’e 6 spacecraft scooped up the volcanic rock and dirt from the ancient, sprawling South Pole-Aitken basin, one of the largest impact craters in the solar system. The Chinese Academy of ...
Each dot on the Impact Map represents an impact of a recent cut or change made by the federal government. A former federal worker from Ohio is creating an online map to track the impacts of government ...
About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all marine species. But the crater it left behind in the Gulf of Mexico was a ...
Study co-author Sean Gulick, a research professor at The University of Texas at Austin, with a core sample from the Chicxulub crater. In 2016, Gulick co-led a scientific drilling expedition to ...