Shuttle Radar Imagery Pinpoints Extinction Event

CHICXULUB CRATER Data collected by a synthetic aperture radar on board the space shuttle Endeavour in February 2000 have given scientists a better look at the ancient impact crater where an incoming asteroid or comet hit Earth 65 million years ago, wiping out the dinosaurs and 70% of the other...

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