A giant meteorite crater discovered in Greenland, according to NASA [Ciencia] – 14/11/2018

Washington.- An international team of researchers has checked a huge meteor crater hidden under less than one kilometer of ice in Greenland and will now try to determine the moment of impact and how the collision affected the Earth, announced NASA in a statement Wednesday.

"The crater, the first discovered under the Greenland Ice Cap, is one of the 25 largest craters on the Earth, measuring approximately 305 meters deep and more than 30 kilometers in diameter," said the report. space agency.

The team, which included a NASA glaciologist and was led by researchers from the Center for Geogenetics at the University of Copenhagen at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, has been working for the past three years to verify the discovery, which had been made in 2015. using data from the US space agency.

The conclusion was published in the Nov. 14 issue of Science Advances.

Previous studies have shown that significant impacts can profoundly affect the Earth's climate, with significant consequences for life on the planet at this time, the statement said.

The researchers plan to continue their work in this area, answering the remaining questions about when and how the impact of the meteorite has affected the planet, the statement said.