Scientists are drilling 500 metres into Spain’s only recognised meteorite crater in Almería to study shocked quartz and ancient impact geology, offering rare clues to how craters formed, filled and evolved on Earth, Mars and the Moon, and helping decode Martian lakebeds seen in orbital and rover data. Scientists in Almería, southern Spain, have begun an ambitious underground drilling project at the country's only internationally recognised meteorite crater. The site, formed by a massive impact roughly 8 million years ago, is now the focus of a res... [2550 chars]
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