Today, we know the site as Meteor Crater. It has fascinated generations
of people, but we are still only just beginning to understand asteroids,
the phenomenon that excavated this remarkable location. To really get
the scope of this natural wonder, Popular Science sent extreme science
correspondent Jake Roper to take us on a video tour.
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
What We Can Learn From A Massive Meteor Crater
50,000 Years ago, a dense chunk of nickel and iron, over 100 feet
across, entered the Earth's atmosphere. It slammed into the lush
woodlands of North America. The impact left a giant hole - 590 feet deep
and three-quarters of a mile wide - in the landscape of what is now
northern Arizona.
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