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MinuteEarth
Minute Earth
Why space rocks are so hard to find
OCT 17, 20261 MIN
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Description
There are a few reasons space rocks are so hard to find. For starters, more than two thirds of the Earth is covered with water, so for all the meteorites that actually get to Earth, most of them splash down into oceanic obscurity. For a meteorite to be discovered and studied, it has to land… on land. most meteorites that ARE found are found in Earth’s deserts. And it turns out that the biggest desert in the world is – you guessed it – Antarctica.
So of the 67,000 meteorites discovered and documented, some 42,000 have been found in Antarctica, and each year, expeditions bring back nearly 1000 more. But scientists estimate that the meteorites we’ve found so far are just the tip of the iceberg; they probably only represent about 13% of the space rocks locked up in Antarctica; so there are plenty more secrets left out there, lurking in the ice.
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