Massive meteor crater discovered beneath Greenland’s ice is ... - CNN
WEBMar 9, 2022 · CNN — The age of a 31-kilometer (19-mile) wide meteorite crater discovered under a kilometer of Greenland ice had long puzzled scientists. The Hiawatha crater was exceptionally well preserved...
A newly found crater in Greenland is one of Earth's largest - Science News
WEBNov 14, 2018 · Using airborne ice-penetrating radar, scientists have discovered a 31-kilometer-wide crater — larger than the city of Paris — buried under as much as 930 meters of ice in northwest Greenland. The...
Huge asteroid slammed into Greenland just a few million years …
WEBMar 15, 2022 · Researchers from the University of Copenhagen's GLOBE Institute discovered the structure, which they suspected to be a massive 20-mile-wide (31 kilometers) impact crater, in 2015 beneath...
Massive crater under Greenland's ice points to climate-altering …
WEBNov 14, 2018 · Hidden beneath Hiawatha is a 31-kilometer-wide impact crater, big enough to swallow Washington, D.C., Kjær and 21 co-authors report today in a paper in Science Advances. The crater was left when an iron asteroid 1.5 kilometers across slammed into Earth, possibly within the past 100,000 years.
Earth from space: Meteor Crater - Phys.org
WEBJun 28, 2024 · Ahead of Asteroid Day (June 30), the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Meteor Crater, also known as the Barringer Meteorite Crater.
International Team, NASA Make Unexpected Discovery Under …
WEBNov 14, 2018 · An international team of researchers, including a NASA glaciologist, has discovered a large meteorite impact crater hiding beneath more than a half-mile of ice in northwest Greenland.
Massive Impact Crater Found Under Greenland’s Ice - Smithsonian Magazine
WEBNov 15, 2018 · Researchers from the University of Copenhagen who examined the publically available data noticed an anomaly underneath the ice of Hiawatha that appeared to be a 19-mile-wide, 1,000-foot-deep...
NASA SVS | Massive Crater Discovered under Greenland Ice
WEBNov 14, 2018 · An international team of researchers that includes a NASA glaciologist has discovered a 19-mile-wide meteorite impact crater hiding beneath more than half a mile of ice in northwest Greenland. This is the first impact crater of any size ever found under the polar ice sheets.
Cataclysm at Meteor Crater: Crystal Sheds Light on Earth, …
WEB3 days ago · In molten sandstone extracted by prospectors a century ago, an international team of scientists has discovered microscopic crystals telling of unimaginable pressures and temperatures when an asteroid formed Meteor …
Crater Lurks Beneath the Ice - NASA Earth Observatory
WEBDec 2, 2018 · An international team of researchers discovered a large meteorite impact crater hiding beneath the ice of northwest Greenland. The crater—the first found under the Greenland ice sheet—is one of the 25 largest impact craters on Earth, measuring roughly 300 meters (1,000 feet) deep and more than 30 kilometers (19 miles) in diameter.