Devon Island - Earth on Mars ...
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DEVON ISLAND |
Devon Island is the largest uninhabited island on earth. It is twenty-seventh in size. It is located between Canada and Greenland in the Arctic Circle. Muskox is the main mammal with a hairy body. But this is not the only island. Devon Island is a huge crater in the middle of the island that is absent from the rest of the earth. Known as the Haughton impact crater, this huge hole is 23 km in diameter. It is believed that the impact crater formed 39 million years ago, about two kilometers wide. A severe frost that drops below °50 ° C helped keep the crater in the same position as it was thirty million years ago.
The crater still remains as it did during the meteor shower. The Houghton impact crater kept its momentum when other craters on the earth were subjected to weathering (1) over time, when the walls and pits of the pit fell into contact with the air. After the ice age, when the snow melted, the pit filled with water and turned into a huge lake. Over time, as the water has dried up, another ecosystem has formed. It was quite different from every other place on earth (Microclimate (2)). If it is different from all other places on earth, what is it like?
The crater is more similar to the planet Mars, which researchers believe has long since dried up and then dried up! The dry, frozen surface, the rocks of millions of years ago, the lack of life, all of this has led researchers to use the crater in a different way. Thus began the Haughton-Mars Project. Given the question of how humans and machines can survive on Mars, researchers are happy to find a place on Earth to test them. The proposal was proposed by Pascal Lee, a student at Cornell University. In 2000, the base station HMP X-1 opened inside the crater. This research is now being carried out on the strengths of scholars around the world.
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