This is the Chicxulub crater, formed when a massive asteroid slammed into Earth around 66 million years ago. A crater is a giant bowl-shaped hole created when something huge collides with the ground. That impact released energy like billions of nuclear bombs - causing wildfires, tsunamis, and throwing so much dust into the air that sunlight was blocked for months. Plants died, food chains collapsed, and eventually dinosaurs went extinct, along with 75% of life on Earth. It was a disaster… but it

Beneath Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula lies the Chicxulub crater, a 180-km-wide scar formed 66 million years ago by a 10–15-km asteroid striking at 20 km/s. The impact unleashed energy equal to billions of atomic bombs, causing global wildfires, tsunamis, and a dust-filled “impact winter” that ended non-avian dinosaurs. #ChicxulubCrater | Historical Chronicles