Gosses Bluff Crater is located in the south of the Northern Territory, about 1690 kilometers by car from Darwin, the capital of the Northern Territory, and about 195 kilometers from (Alice Springs), the second-largest city of the Northern Territory.
Gosses Bluff Crater is Australia's largest crater, about 4 km in diameter, formed about 142 million years ago when a planet or comet about 22 km in diameter hit Earth at a speed of 40 km per second. When it hits the earth, it becomes a burning furnace, crashing into the ground about 800m deep, releasing an enormous amount of energy equivalent to 22,000 megabytes of TNT, razing nearly 400 square kilometers of the surrounding ground to the ground.
Gosses Bluff Crater was discovered in 1873 and was well known to the native people before they were discovered by scientists, who had left the area early, but left traces of their activities everywhere. Like most similar craters, the Goss cliffs have crevices that radiate from the center to the surrounding, forming cone-shaped broken cones that have been eroded by years of wind and rain, and the rubble that was once covered in the craters has been eroded by years of wind and rain. Now there are two hard sandstone cliffs on the edge of the pit, about 180 meters above the plain.
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