Crater found in Sahara
They found a huge crater in the Sahara Desert previously unknown.
Amazing that this stuff has been around forever and even as advanced as we are. We, the human race, are still finding mysteries on The Earth.
Scientists have discovered a huge
crater in the Saharan desert, the largest one ever found there.
The
crater is about 19 miles (31 kilometers) wide, more than twice as big as the
next largest Saharan crater known. It utterly dwarfs Meteor
Crater in Arizona, which is about three-fourths of a mile (1.2 kilometers)
in diameter.
In fact, the newfound crater, in Egypt, was likely carved by a
space rock that was itself roughly 0.75 miles wide in an event that would have
been quite a shock, destroying everything for hundreds of miles. For comparison,
the Chicxulub
crater left by a dinosaur-killing asteroid 65 million years ago is estimated
to be 100 to 150 miles (160 to 240 kilometers) wide.
The crater
was discovered in satellite images by Boston University researchers Farouk
El-Baz and Eman Ghoneim.
Amazing that this stuff has been around forever and even as advanced as we are. We, the human race, are still finding mysteries on The Earth.
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