A group of researchers from all over the world are planning to drill core samples from the famous dinosaur asteroid crater, the, to help them in the adventure to study the evolution of life on Earth, as well as how the crater was made. The team will drill 5,000 feet down into the crater, which is thought to be at least 65-million years old, dating back to the start of the extinction of the dinosaurs. Most now believe that the asteroid that caused the crater was the cause of the dinosaur extinction.
This adventure to drill into Chicxulub Crater to get the core sample is expected to cost $10 million and is led by two scientists: Joanna Morgan from Imperial College in London, and Sean Gulick from the Austin Institute of Geophysics at The University of Texas.
By going down to that deep of a distance, they will travel to an area of the Earth …show more content…
It covers a 125-mile impact area.
Studying it should give the researchers the chance to understand how the other life on Earth was able to withstand the asteroid’s impact and the resulting devastation that caused the dinosaur extinction.
It is considered to be a great adventure, as these scientists will be searching for information that could be ground breaking and life changing since it is expected to help explain how life after the dinosaurs lived, evolved and was able to thrive to the current day.
Project Was Long Time in the Making
Of course, this study of the famous dinosaur asteroid crater and its mysteries is not all new, as scientists have studied it for decades using various geophysical methods. However, this is the first time a team will get to put their hands on actual samples that will be pulled up by the drilling into the Chicxulub
This adventure to drill into Chicxulub Crater to get the core sample is expected to cost $10 million and is led by two scientists: Joanna Morgan from Imperial College in London, and Sean Gulick from the Austin Institute of Geophysics at The University of Texas.
By going down to that deep of a distance, they will travel to an area of the Earth …show more content…
It covers a 125-mile impact area.
Studying it should give the researchers the chance to understand how the other life on Earth was able to withstand the asteroid’s impact and the resulting devastation that caused the dinosaur extinction.
It is considered to be a great adventure, as these scientists will be searching for information that could be ground breaking and life changing since it is expected to help explain how life after the dinosaurs lived, evolved and was able to thrive to the current day.
Project Was Long Time in the Making
Of course, this study of the famous dinosaur asteroid crater and its mysteries is not all new, as scientists have studied it for decades using various geophysical methods. However, this is the first time a team will get to put their hands on actual samples that will be pulled up by the drilling into the Chicxulub