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Scientists drill into Spain's only meteorite crater for clues to Mars

Researchers are drilling 500 metres into Spain's only internationally recognised meteorite crater, hoping to learn more about an ancient impact event and gather insights that could help scientists understand Mars.

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00:00I love you, I love you, I love you
00:41We are in the only country of Spain that has now recognized the international community,
00:45not only of Spain, but also of the Iberian Peninsula, the fifth of the Occidental Europe
00:50and the 196th of the world.
01:11We have a local geologist with a transcendence of space, which is very important because it will
01:19serve us to see how the materials are varying from outside the Earth.
01:49This bólido, when it comes to temperatures more than 2.000 degrees, 7.000 to 8.000 degrees,
01:56in that moment, the quartz cristalino with structure, loses the structure, becomes amorphous
02:02and forms a series of superficies, very straight, very rectas and very indefinidas,
02:09which only produce two causes, the impact of a meteorite or a bomb atómica.
02:15Here we have no constancy of a bomb atómica, but it will have to be the impact of a meteorite.
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