How To Discover Your Own Massive Meteorite Crater (And Still Work From Home)

Aerial shot of Meteor Crater aka Barringer Crater, near Winslow, Arizona. GETTY

Jamie Carter at Forbes Magazine writes:

A new citizen science project called Vigie-Cratère is inviting “citizen scientists” to travel Earth in search of impact craters to help scientists better reconstruct the history of collisions with Earth. 

The source of many suspected craters is, of course, satellite images, but members of the public are being asked to compare these with new layers of topographic data, so-called “shaded relief” that can reveal circular depressions that are otherwise invisible if only satellite images are studied.

So far almost more than 3,600 potential meteorite impact craters have been discovered by users of Vigie-Cratère. Read More