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1 day ago · In 2014, a strange crater appeared on the Yamal Peninsula in Siberia. The sudden appearance of the crater and the material surrounding it suggested it had been produced by some sort of explosion ...
3 days ago · Meteorite. The 60- tonne, 2.7 m-long (8.9 ft) Hoba meteorite in Namibia is the largest known intact meteorite. [1] A meteorite is a rock that originated in outer space and has fallen to the surface of a planet or moon. When the original object enters the atmosphere, various factors such as friction, pressure, and chemical interactions with the ...
19 hours ago · A crater is formed after an asteroid crashes into a larger body's surface, while the displaced material is named an 'ejecta'. According to the research team, images showed that the crater's one-half got buried under material which was thrown out or 'ejecta' from the South Pole-Aitken basin -- the largest and widely known impact basin on the Moon.
5 days ago · Kīlauea's most recent eruption took place between September 15 and September 20, 2024 near and within Nāpau Crater, a pit crater located in a remote and uninhabited part of the volcano's middle east rift. The eruption had four eruptive phases between September 15 and September 20.
Chandrayaan-3, India's lunar mission, has landed in a 3.85-billion-year-old crater on the Moon, scientists said on Saturday. The crater is one of the oldest on the Moon's surface.
3 days ago · The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, [a] also known as the K–T extinction, [b] was the mass extinction of three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth [2][3] approximately 66 million years ago. The event caused the extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs.
5 days ago · Liza Lester, +1 (202) 777-7494, news@agu.org (UTC-5 hours) WASHINGTON — Mysterious craters that first appeared in the Siberian permafrost a decade ago were caused by climate change-driven pressure changes that explosively released methane frozen underground, a new study reports. The research offers a fresh take on the origins of the craters ...
