The Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica is seen in this undated NASA image. Vast glaciers in West Antarctica seem to be locked in an irreversible thaw linked to global warming that may push up sea levels for centuries, scientists said on May 12, 2014. Six glac
The Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica is seen in this undated NASA image. Vast glaciers in West Antarctica seem to be locked in an irreversible thaw linked to global warming that may push up sea levels for centuries, scientists said on May 12, 2014. Six glaciers including the Thwaites Glacier, eaten away from below by a warming of sea waters around the frozen continent, were flowing fast into the Amundsen Sea, according to the report based partly on satellite radar measurements from 1992 to 2011. Reuters/NASA

A mysterious circle was noticed in the normally featureless ice of East Antarctica when scientists were conducting an aerial research flight above the area. The scientists had a suspicion that the enormous crater could have been created by a meteorite, which was said to be the size of a house.

According to the Daily Mail, on Sept. 2 2004, a series of infra-sounds were reported. Infra-sounds are low frequency sounds which are capable of traveling wide distances and were below the limit of hearing. Scientists have pinpointed an area over East Antarctica with the help of six detectors that are places around the world. The detectors had detected the sound that was said to be of an exploding house-sized meteorite.

Scientists at Davis Station, a permanent base in Antarctica by the Australian Antarctic Division, came up with a report that said that a dust trail was seen in the atmosphere around the same time. They have come up with an estimation that the object would have fallen on the ice shelf.

All these findings point out that a meteorite could have broken the atmosphere over the area before its remains created a wide circular scar into a series of icebergs. The 2 kilometres wide scar were surrounded by some smaller circular scars.

Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany, an institute that carried out research in the Arctic and Antarctic regions, were flying on a Polar 6 which is a Basler BT-67 aircraft. They were flying over an area called the Princess Ragnhild Coast of Queen Maud Land in Antarctica to study the rock below the ice on Dec. 24 2014.

During this time, Dr Christian Müller, a geophysicist from Fielax, a private company that offers services for marine technology, noticed the first impact crater. He said that they were flying above an ice buff when he noticed it. He added that while he was looking out of the window, he saw a few unusual structures in the surface. He explained that the structures were some broken ice that looked like icebergs and was surrounded by a circular structure.

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