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Bookmark or Share- Batagaika crater - WikipediaThe rapid expansion of the crater is uncovering a host of fossilized materials, including ancient forests and pollen and animal carcasses such as that of musk ox, woolly mammoth and Lena horse, along with other animals. [1] [5] It also allows for insight into 200,000 to 650,000 years of climate data.[8] [9]Drone footage [6] [10] revealed in 2023 more details of the crater, and Nikita Tananayev ...
- Batagaika Crater, Russia | EROS - USGSSometimes described as resembling a stingray or a tadpole, the Batagaika Crater is a widening chasm in Siberia and the world’s largest permafrost crater.
- 'Gateway to Hell': Giant Hole in Siberia Is Expanding RapidlyIt's the world's largest "retrogressive thaw slump," which is a pit that forms when permafrost thaw causes the ground to cave in, creating a landslide as the earth at its edges slumps into the pit. Satellite images from 1999 and 2017 show how much the Batagay megaslump has grown (and how much satellite imaging has improved).
- Why Siberia's Batagaika Crater Is Known as the Gateway to Hell ...First spotted in the mid-1960s by surveillance satellites that were classified, the Batagaika crater has grown over the past 60 years from an insignificant gully to a massive tadpole-shaped depression that covers 200 acres (81 hectares) and stretches 2/3 of a mile (1 kilometer) in length and is 164 feet (50 meters) deep, according to the U.S. Ge...
- Batagay - WikipediaBatagay (Russian: Батага́й; Yakut: Баатаҕай, Baatağay) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Verkhoyansky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located on the Yana River. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 4,369. [3] Batagay is located a short distance to the west of river Adycha.
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