Scientists discover giant impact crater buried under Greenland ice
Scientists have discovered the existence of a giant impact crater buried under the Greenland ice.
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. The crater — the first of any size found under the Greenland ice sheet — is one of the 25 largest impact craters on Earth, measuring roughly 1,000 feet deep and more than 19 miles in diameter, an area slightly larger than that inside Washington’s Capital Beltway.
They think, based on the data, that this crater is very young, one of the youngest known on Earth. At the most is is no more than 3 million years old.
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Scientists have discovered the existence of a giant impact crater buried under the Greenland ice.
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. The crater — the first of any size found under the Greenland ice sheet — is one of the 25 largest impact craters on Earth, measuring roughly 1,000 feet deep and more than 19 miles in diameter, an area slightly larger than that inside Washington’s Capital Beltway.
They think, based on the data, that this crater is very young, one of the youngest known on Earth. At the most is is no more than 3 million years old.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
The Thing ????
D Ray: Heh. I should have thought of that.
D Ray–
Most excellent, obscure cultural reference!
The Thing from Another World (1951)
“We finally got one…”
https://youtu.be/dGjJ8vfh5CI
4:53
[The 1951 film was loosely adapted by Charles Lederer, from the novella “Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell, Jr.; the story was first published in Astounding Science Fiction (August 1938) under Campbell’s pseudonym Don A. Stuart.” “In 1973, the story was voted by the Science Fiction Writers of America as one of the finest science fiction novellas ever written.”
“Astounding Science Fiction
Street & Smith Publications
August, 1938.
>Cover scan
http://www.luminist.org/archives/SF/AST/AST_1938_08_L.jpg
A handy resource:
The Pulp Magazine Archive
https://archive.org/details/pulpmagazinearchive
Would there be any relationship between the impact, probable dust obscuring the sun, and subsequent ice cover?
Younger Dryas event…Biblical flood, it will be all over the woo sites!!
The Thing ????
Loved the original but the remake was probably even better.