Two different discoveries shed light on Earth’s hidden past. One began with an ordinary Google Maps search that revealed a strange circular structure in Quebec - possibly a long-lost impact crater. The other centers on an ancient geological scar that may predate the continents themselves, offering clues to the violent forces that shaped the early planet. Both cases show how much of Earth’s history is still buried in plain sight or hidden deep beneath its surface. Animation is created by Bright Side. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Music from TheSoul Sound: https://thesoul-sound.com/
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00:00You'd be surprised to find out the life-changing discoveries a person can make just by browsing Google Maps.
00:06Like this guy, who found a suspicious crater and might have made a major scientific discovery.
00:13In 2024, Canadian Joel Lupin was planning a casual camping trip in his homeland.
00:20He opened Google Earth and zoomed in Quebec's Côte-Nord region.
00:23That's when he saw it, this unusual rounded structure.
00:27The measurement was impressive, 9.3 miles from one point to another, and there seemed to be a lake next to it.
00:34He was quick to print the screen and sent the image to a French geophysicist to see if he knew anything about it.
00:40Most times, these images turn out to be nothing, or simply Google Earth's watermarks.
00:45But he was surprised when he opened his email and saw the scientist's reply.
00:50The geophysicist said that, judging by the looks of the topography,
00:54Lapointe could have discovered a meteor impact area.
00:58Now, impact areas are really hard to identify.
01:01Since they've been around for millions of years, most of their shapes have been heavily changed by erosion.
01:07Scientists call these areas impact structures.
01:10They're usually circular or crater-like and are made up of deformed bedrock.
01:14It happens when a meteor falls into the surface of the Earth.
01:17Here's the thing.
01:19Since the crater has huge walls around it, these areas are usually mistaken for mountain ranges.
01:25That's what left the Canadian explorer confused.
01:27But the French geophysicist that analyzed the case gave him hope.
01:31That weird formation in Quebec had been classified as a type of volcanic formation.
01:38After Lapointe brought this subject back to the agenda, scientists had to dig a little deeper to find the truth.
01:44Until this recent discovery, scientists thought the area looked like that due to some volcanic formation.
01:50This is actually normal, since other things such as volcanism and sinkholes can be mistaken for impact craters.
01:57To verify, they asked for some samples of the site.
02:01This is a more reliable way to fact-check whether a meteor landed there or not.
02:06When the meteor hits the Earth, it brings different types of minerals from outer space.
02:11That's the wonderful thing about impact craters.
02:13They reveal a link between Earth and the outside universe.
02:17By now, scientists have catalogued most of the minerals that are native to our planet.
02:22When they're searching for an impact structure, they usually look for things such as tenite and camisite, which can only be found in meteors.
02:30The biggest known impact crater in the world is the Vrediford crater, located in South Africa.
02:36This big thing was formed some 4 billion years ago.
02:39The asteroid that made it is estimated to have been one of the largest ever to strike planet Earth.
02:45When the researchers got the results of the site back in Canada, they did confirm that it contained zircon, a mineral that tends to show areas of impact.
02:54There's no way to guarantee that Laplante really found an impact crater.
02:58But scientists are organizing a research mission over to the area just to make sure.
03:04If it turns out that it really is an impact crater, that's pretty huge news, since the last discovery was made in 2013.
03:11Another one of these mesmerizing discoveries came from a 15-year-old boy.
03:18William Goddory was also a Canadian and, for some reason, loved looking for long-lost Mayan cities.
03:25Different from the previous story, William had an intention and a research methodology.
03:30He had studied many books on Mayan civilizations.
03:33He believed that Mayans built their cities in relation to the stars in the sky.
03:38So, he opened a book and mapped all the cities that have already been unearthed.
03:43And that's when he noticed something important.
03:46There is an area in the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico where archaeologists have unearthed two mine cities.
03:52But on the constellation map, there are three stars.
03:56He thought to himself, could this mean there is a lost city waiting to be discovered nearby?
04:01William Goddory is known to be a science genius and has even won an award for this constellation theory.
04:09When he noticed that a third city was missing from the 23rd constellation he was examining,
04:15he began to search Google Earth for satellite pictures that could help him solve this mystery.
04:21Advances in satellite tech have shed new light on long-lost Mayan cities such as Tikal.
04:27Located in the heart of the Guatemalan jungle, Tikal is believed to have been the capital of the ancient Mayan empire.
04:34He had hopes.
04:35So, he reached out to a friend inside the Canadian Space Agency to verify what he had found.
04:41Since he had already won awards for his research, he had friends in high places.
04:46And that's when things got interesting.
04:48According to the images, there was a large square area on the border of Mexico and Belize that looked like the remains of the city.
04:55William took the images to a remote sensing expert.
04:59They studied the images thoroughly and concluded that the area could be housing 30 buildings and even a large pyramid.
05:08William named the new city he discovered as Mouth of Fire.
05:12However, his theory was very much contested inside the archaeological community.
05:17And many Mayan experts worked to debunk William's findings.
05:20Experts say that constellation theories are too unscientific.
05:25Renowned anthropologists and astronomers said William's methodology was an act of creative imagination.
05:32Still, a 15-year-old teen almost found a long-lost Mayan city, which is pretty exciting if you ask me.
05:39What about these tiny dots that appeared on images of Google Earth?
05:45These strange spotted circles were found in the middle of the Algerian desert.
05:49A YouTuber browsing on Google Earth found these circles and discovered that people have been debating over their origin for years.
05:57He thought they were a glitch from satellite images.
05:59There are dozens of them, stretching for miles and miles in a straight line.
06:04They're far away from any town, road, or human activity, making it hard to understand if it was man-made or just a natural phenomenon.
06:14To settle this mystery, he interviewed the people who took Google Earth's pictures.
06:19He found out they were 100% true.
06:21The circles were there in real life.
06:24They appear in multiple pictures from multiple years.
06:27Now, at first, he guessed they were the result of oil activity.
06:31Algeria is a rich area for natural resources.
06:34So, this made sense.
06:36To find out if the area is worth extracting, companies usually undertake seismic surveys.
06:42They're a way of analyzing the Earth's surface by sending shockwaves into the ground.
06:47Depending on how these waves bounce back, you'll know it is located underground.
06:52There was another possibility.
06:54The Sahara is a very dry area of the planet.
06:58The average high temperatures in summer are over 104 degrees Fahrenheit.
07:03To survive there, people need to find ways of accessing water.
07:07So, his second guess was that the circles were kind of ruined or leftover from ancient water wells.
07:14But when he talked to an expert, he found out they weren't ancient water wells.
07:18You can see some of these traditional constructions in other cities on Google Earth.
07:22And they look really different from the mysterious circles.
07:25He decided to travel over to Algeria to find out the truth.
07:30He drove 99 miles into the heart of the desert.
07:33And when he gets there, he sees it.
07:36A huge crater dug on the sand, surrounded by 12 smaller holes.
07:41It kind of looked like the ancestor of a modern clock.
07:44There, he found something he couldn't spot on Google Earth.
07:48Thin metal wires.
07:50When the curious YouTuber and his teams started to dig in the sand, they found old dynamite and some sardine cans.
07:57Apparently, they were hiding the truth.
07:59The Sahara circles, as they were famously called, were not the historical leftovers of seismic surveying.
08:07Back at the time when these circles were made, this technology didn't even exist.
08:11But they were sure related to oil exploration.
08:15The dynamite holes were an ancient method of oil searching.
08:18And the sardine cans?
08:20Well, they were left by the workers who were exploring the region.
08:23Another Google Earth mystery solved.
08:26A long, long time ago, a huge meteorite smashed into the Earth with a horrible destructive power.
08:36It was several times bigger than the one that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
08:42Luckily, there were no lives it could have taken.
08:44Or else, it would have been a real catastrophe.
08:48Now, scientists think it did leave behind a huge footprint.
08:51The massive Antarctica impact crater that is bigger than the entire state of New York.
08:58The location also has a gravitational Wilkesland anomaly going on.
09:03At first, scientists noticed something weird here when they measured Earth's gravity in that region.
09:09A strange gravity hole, or a negative gravity anomaly.
09:14Later, with better technology, they found something even weirder.
09:17There was a positive gravity anomaly inside that gravity hole.
09:22A spot with stronger gravity.
09:25This kind of structure, called a mask-on, short for mass concentration,
09:30often shows up in places where giant space...
09:33That's it for today.
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