In Antarctica is a giant meteor crater – the scientists

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В Антарктиде находится гигантский метеоритный кратер, – ученыеScientists came to the conclusion that in Antarctica there is a huge meteorite crater, hidden under the icy shell.

Today, the greatest on Earth, a crater from a meteorite, according to experts, is in South Africa.

City Vredefort was built in the region of the crater, whose diameter is equal to 300 kilometers.

However, scientists believe that the crater Wilkes, located in Antarctica, on its size exceeds South African counterpart.

Images from space suggest that under the glacier hides an object of annular shape, the diameter of which reaches 500 kilometers.

Many scientists claim that this crater formed after the collision of Earth with a giant meteorite.

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