Detecting huge craters in Egypt

Scientists have discovered an unprecedented large crater in the Sahara desert. The pit mouth is about 31km wide, twice the largest pit ever discovered in this area.

Kebira pit in western Egypt has a radius of about 31 km

The new crater can be formed from the impact of a meteorite about 1 km wide with the ground, destroying everything within hundreds of kilometers.

Boston University scientists Farouk El-Baz and Eman Ghoneim discovered this crater and named it Kebira.

Kebira means 'big' in Arabic and is almost similar to the name of the area Gilf Kebir (Egypt), where a giant hole is discovered.

El-Baz said, ' Kebira has an area of ​​125 football fields or an area of ​​Cairo from the airport in the Northeast to the pyramids in the Southwest. When studying similar holes, we focused on small, measurable expressions on the ground. Photos from space give us a more panoramic view . '

Types of cosmic holes often have a circular belt. However, they can be eroded by water and wind, so they are rarely detected with the naked eye.

Ghoneim said, there are two ancient rivers that once flowed through the Kebira hole from the East and West.

T. Nam