Photo: Crater From 1908 Russian Space Impact Found, Team Says



Trees lay strewn across the Siberian countryside in 1953, 45 years after a mysterious aerial explosion called the Tunguska event leveled a huge swath of forest there.

A new study suggests that a nearby lake bed is actually a crater created by the explosion.

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