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Russian scientists got their first view of the mysterious crater in Yamal, Siberia on Wednesday, July 16th, while the Siberian Times, take a picture of a helicopter to get a view of the mysterious crater from above.
It is estimated that the crater could have a diameter of 80 meters. However, Andrey Plekhanov of State Scientific Centre of Arctic Research told The Siberian Times that the hole is approximately 30 meters wide and its outer portion covering soil emissions of about 60 meters in diameter.
The researchers also saw a lake of ice at the bottom of the hole that it is about 70 meters. Samples of land, air, and water has been taken in order to help determine the cause.
Preliminary results indicate that the hole was formed in the last two years and satellite data were examined to try and identify exactly when the first hole appeared. Siberian Plekhanov told the Times that it is the ejection of the hole in the ice, but it was not an explosion because there is no heat loss.
"There is ice in the crater that gradually melts in the sun. Also there meltwater flows down from the sides, we can clearly see traces of water on the walls of the hole. The crater is filled with ice around eighty percent", said Andrey PlekhanovHe stressed: "We are working with space photographs (which provides satellite imagery) to determine the exact time of its formation."We have taken samples of soil and ice that will be taken directly to the laboratory. We can safely say that the emergence of this crater is relatively new, maybe one or two years ago."Could it be related to global warming? We must continue our research to answer this question.""Two summers earlier - in 2012 and 2014 was relatively hot for Yamal, this might somehow affect the formation of the crater.""But we have to do a test and our research first and then put it more definitive.""The best theory for now is that the crater was formed by internal forces, not external forces."
"For now we can say with certainty that under the influence of internal processes exist ejection in permafrost. I want to emphasize that it was not an explosion, but the ejection, so that no heat is released."Previous scientists believe no visible burn marks on the side of the crater."I am also reminded of a theory ever proposed by our scientists in the 1980s, but the theory is then forgotten for several years."It says that a number of lakes in the Yamal formed by natural processes exactly as happened in the permafrost."Such kind of process that occurred about 8,000 years ago, it may be natural to repeat this time. If this theory is confirmed, we can say that we have witnessed a unique natural processes that form the unusual landscape of the Yamal peninsula.""No trace of anthropogenic impacts near the crater, also no trace of human presence, except for a few traces of the sled and of course the deer trail.""If this is a man-made disaster that occurred when pememompaan gas, then this hole would be closer to the gas fields, not here", said Andrey Plekhanov told The Siberian Times."The hole is about 30 kilometers away. And unknown to the workers in the fields Gas".
Speculation about aliens or UFOs, he insisted: "There is nothing mysterious about this hole. There is no strange feeling or that can not be described here, we came back with a healthy and wal afiat".
Nonetheless, he said: "I've never seen anything like this, although I have to Yamal many times."
Summer of 2012 and 2014 it was warm in the area, but researchers still have much work to do before actually know what the specific cause of the creation of the hole.
Russian scientists got their first view of the mysterious crater in Yamal, Siberia on Wednesday, July 16th, while the Siberian Times, take a picture of a helicopter to get a view of the mysterious crater from above.
It is estimated that the crater could have a diameter of 80 meters. However, Andrey Plekhanov of State Scientific Centre of Arctic Research told The Siberian Times that the hole is approximately 30 meters wide and its outer portion covering soil emissions of about 60 meters in diameter.
The researchers also saw a lake of ice at the bottom of the hole that it is about 70 meters. Samples of land, air, and water has been taken in order to help determine the cause.
Preliminary results indicate that the hole was formed in the last two years and satellite data were examined to try and identify exactly when the first hole appeared. Siberian Plekhanov told the Times that it is the ejection of the hole in the ice, but it was not an explosion because there is no heat loss.
"There is ice in the crater that gradually melts in the sun. Also there meltwater flows down from the sides, we can clearly see traces of water on the walls of the hole. The crater is filled with ice around eighty percent", said Andrey PlekhanovHe stressed: "We are working with space photographs (which provides satellite imagery) to determine the exact time of its formation."We have taken samples of soil and ice that will be taken directly to the laboratory. We can safely say that the emergence of this crater is relatively new, maybe one or two years ago."Could it be related to global warming? We must continue our research to answer this question.""Two summers earlier - in 2012 and 2014 was relatively hot for Yamal, this might somehow affect the formation of the crater.""But we have to do a test and our research first and then put it more definitive.""The best theory for now is that the crater was formed by internal forces, not external forces."
"For now we can say with certainty that under the influence of internal processes exist ejection in permafrost. I want to emphasize that it was not an explosion, but the ejection, so that no heat is released."Previous scientists believe no visible burn marks on the side of the crater."I am also reminded of a theory ever proposed by our scientists in the 1980s, but the theory is then forgotten for several years."It says that a number of lakes in the Yamal formed by natural processes exactly as happened in the permafrost."Such kind of process that occurred about 8,000 years ago, it may be natural to repeat this time. If this theory is confirmed, we can say that we have witnessed a unique natural processes that form the unusual landscape of the Yamal peninsula.""No trace of anthropogenic impacts near the crater, also no trace of human presence, except for a few traces of the sled and of course the deer trail.""If this is a man-made disaster that occurred when pememompaan gas, then this hole would be closer to the gas fields, not here", said Andrey Plekhanov told The Siberian Times."The hole is about 30 kilometers away. And unknown to the workers in the fields Gas".
Speculation about aliens or UFOs, he insisted: "There is nothing mysterious about this hole. There is no strange feeling or that can not be described here, we came back with a healthy and wal afiat".
Nonetheless, he said: "I've never seen anything like this, although I have to Yamal many times."
Summer of 2012 and 2014 it was warm in the area, but researchers still have much work to do before actually know what the specific cause of the creation of the hole.
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