A camper scrolling through Google Maps has stumbled upon what could be a crater caused by a giant asteroid impact in Canada. Joël Lapointe discovered the likely crater with a spherical pit of ...

An internet user in search of peace. A previously unknown region of Quebec. And suddenly, Google Maps upends the certainties of geologists. While looking for a campsite, Joël Lapointe stumbles ...

After firing up Google’s map software to plan a camping trip ... The key in declaring the site a meteorite impact crater centers around the existence of shatter cones, basically branch-like ...

Nine times out of 10 they’re not [craters],” Earth sciences professor, Gordon Osinski explained. An interactive map created by Gordon Osinski and Impact Earth shows impact craters in North ...

You know, nine times out of 10 they're not [craters]," says Osinski. An interactive map created by Gordon Osinski and Impact Earth has mapped out impact craters and deposits around the world.

By analyzing how far material ejected from an impact crater flies, scientists can locate buried glaciers and other interesting subsurface features.

A map of Antarctica showing gravity data across ... If the Wilkes Land crater is an impact crater, then it "would be the greatest impact crater known" on Earth in terms of its size, the authors ...

"We thought it looked like an impact crater," Heinrich said ... minute quadrangle is a geological survey-produced topographic map covering an area spanning seven and one-half minutes of latitude ...

Researchers from the European Centre for Research and Teaching in Environmental Geosciences (CEREGE) are currently assessing the site to determine if it is indeed a meteorite impact crater.