Arizona's Meteor Crater is still revealing new secrets 50k years later

Arizona's Meteor Crater, formed 50,000 years ago, remains the best-preserved impact site on Earth and continues to yield new scientific insights annually. Researchers from institutions like the Southwest Research Institute and the University of Vienna are conducting ongoing studies, supported by competitive grants from the Barringer Crater Company to encourage early-career research into terrestrial impact craters. The crater serves as a natural laboratory for understanding cosmic collisions and their geological and biological effects, including the mass extinction event 66 million years ago.