Short shrift for most posting this week, as I’m very busy with work, but I found this story interesting.
Ground-Penetrating Radar locates buried meteorite in Kansas farm field.
“It validates the technique so we can use something similar to that instrument when we go to Mars,” said Patricia Reiff, director of the Rice Space Institute.
Such GPR systems had been used in the past to locate smaller meteorites through the ice in Antarctica. But until the Kansas dig, the technology had not been successfully used for ground detection in heavy soils — like on Mars — to find meteorites or water there.
The dig was likely the most documented excavation yet of a meteorite find.
Meteorite buried below a Kansas farm? Hmm… below, an ultra-scientific reconstruction of what the meteorite may have looked like:
Image via Planete-Smallville; Warner Brothers image.
In related news, small boy lifts car over his head.
-wolfe