Drilling deep into craters collided by meteors once destroyed dinosaurs

Previous evidence has been found to show that a giant meteorite crashed into Earth, in the area of ​​today's Gulf of Mexico , and destroyed dinosaurs and many other animals but what happened soon after? that is still a mystery.

So in early April, scientists will drill down Chicxulub impact crater in Mexico to find ancient DNA and bacteria samples and analyze rock samples in multiple strata to understand how some organisms can continue to survive after the disaster.

Chicxulub crater area is about to be drilled down to explore.

Chicxulub is a meteor impact crater buried beneath the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. It is about 180 km in diameter and is one of the most impact-resistant structures on Earth ever known. It is predicted that this crater was formed by a meteorite of at least 10km in diameter at the end of the Cretaceous, about 65 million years ago and caused mass destruction for the dominant giant reptiles. Earth at that time.

This time, scientists plan to drill down from 780 to 1500 meters below the crater in the hope of finding data that confirms the existence of the collision.

The rig is expected to be operational in 2 months and scientists said that all must be done with extreme caution because if there is an error, there is no chance of doing it again. If successful, the project will help to increase the understanding of the mysterious period in the history of the Earth.