Strange Craters In Siberia
Russian scientists researched a strange crater that appeared at the Jamal peninsula in northwestern Siberia. This crater suddenly appeared there in the early summer of 2020.
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Giant craters have been appearing in the Russian parts of arctics for several years. The first that caught the eye of the scientific community happened in 2014 and it had roughly a diameter of 20 meters. It appeared near a natural gas mining site near the town of Bovanenkovo. First, there were some strange hypotheses about where the cavities are coming from ranging from military tests to meteorites.
Further research indicated that the creation of crates is preceded by a local accumulation of gas in the cavities of the upper layers of permafrost. This theory claims the slow increase of gas pressure leads to its eventual explosion. Nonetheless, some scientists were still working on a volcanic origin hypothesis.
These craters do fairly quickly – in a matter of a few years – get filled with water and end up as small lakes. To this day we know about 20 craters and on the 16th of July 2020, Andrej Umnikov discovered a new crater with a diameter of about 25 meters and a depth of 30 meters. This crater was later labeled as C17.
Then, in late August of 2020, a scientific expedition went to the area. This particular crater is unique because of its perfectly preserved shape. Most importantly, it’s the cone-shaped top around which the ejected frozen ground can be found.
The scientists were also interested in the well-preserved giant underground cavern in the ice. Before the explosion, it has a spherical arch and its floor had an elliptical shape. Scientists already made several types of research into the object including aerial imagining.
But now, for the first time ever a drone went inside of the crater and it had a high risk of being damaged or lost. At a depth of 10 to 15 meters underground it performed “underground aerial imagining”. With further processing of the data, the scientists created a 3D model of the underground caver and crater. That makes it the first time when the scientists fully researched a “fresh” crated that is almost undamaged and has not been flooded with water.
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