Leonard David's INSIDE OUTER SPACE

Image credit: Meteor Crater, Arizona: Arizona Geological Survey – AZGS/Dale Nations

Arizona’s meteor crater and other leftover scars from inbound space rocks continue to serve up secrets. These impact features continue to be on-going research sites, generating new data on wayward, mean and nasty creatures from the surrounding cosmos.

“The crater is still providing new insights every year, so continued studies there are really important,” explains one researcher.

Competitive grants

In fact, a number of competitive grants are being offered to support field research at known or suspected impact sites worldwide.

Astrogeologist Gene Shoemaker at Meteor Crater with Apollo astronauts during field trip in May 1967.
Image credit: NASA

That funding is backing laboratory and computer analysis of research samples and findings, creating new data from digging in on old craters around our globe.

For more information, go to my new Space.com story – “Arizona’s Meteor Crater is still revealing new secrets 50,000 years later” at:

https://www.space.com/stargazing/meteor-showers/arizonas-meteor-crater-is-still-revealing-new-secrets-50-000-years-later