The Wilkes Land crater is a hole in the bedrock beneath East Antarctica's ice sheet measuring 315 miles (510 kilometers) across. Researchers have been trying to explain its existence since the ...

The Wilkes Land crater is a hole in the bedrock beneath East Antarctica's ice sheet measuring 315 miles (510 kilometers) across. Researchers have been trying to explain its existence since the ...

The Wilkes Land crater is more than twice the size of the ... fluctuations measured by NASA's GRACE satellites to peer beneath Antarctica's icy surface, and found a 200-mile-wide plug of mantle ...

Above, GRACE-measured gravity fluctuations beneath East Antarctica . Denser regions appear more red; the location of the Wilkes Land crater is circled Ohio State University It's true that there is ...

A massive crater in Antarctica may have been caused by a ... The crater was found in what's known as the Wilkes Land region of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. "This is a strong candidate for the ...

The Wilkes Land anomaly spans 300 miles—suggesting a crater formed by a cataclysmic meteor strike millions of years ago. At 1.6 km beneath Antarctic ice, the anomaly resists direct study ...

Against their expectations, they found that the place with the thickest ice in Antarctica is an unnamed canyon in Wilkes Land, a district in the east of the continent. Previous surveys placed ...

The crater's location, in the Wilkes Land region of East Antarctica, south of Australia, suggests it might have instigated the breakup of the so-called Gondwana supercontinent, which pushed ...

Above, thickness of the Earth’s crust across Antarctica . Thicker crust appears red. The location of the Wilkes Land crater is circled (below right of center). Image courtesy of Ohio State ...