A massive crater hides beneath Greenland’s ice

Whether the impact is related to a period of cooling called the Younger Dryas is unknown

illustration of asteroid heading for Earth

SPACE ROCK  An iron asteroid hurtles through space in this artist’s conception of an event that left a large crater in northwest Greenland sometime in the distant past.

Natural History Museum of Denmark, Cryospheric Sciences Lab/GSFC/NASA

There’s something big lurking beneath Greenland’s ice.