Friday, June 29, 2012

World's oldest, largest impact crater found

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World's oldest, largest impact crater found:
An artist's illustration of how a large meteorite impact in the sea might have looked in the first second of the impact. Scientists are unsure if the oldest meteorite crater on Earth, a 3 billion-year-old crater in West Greenland, was covered in water at the time.A study of Greenland's rocks may have turned up something unexpected: the oldest and largest meteorite crater ever found on Earth.





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