Fact Sheet
The Road to Wabar
After a long, arduous journey, an expedition led by British explore Harry St. John Philby arrived at the site of a meteorite impact in the 'Empty Quarter' of the Arabian desert in February 1932. Philby was looking for an ancient city that legend said was buried beneath the shifting sands. Instead, he found several big circular holes in the ground and some fragments of iron and black glass from the impact. Although the craters are not visible from space, the site is near the center of this picture, which was snapped by astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Scientific expeditions after Philby's found more evidence of the impact and mapped the site in detail. [NASA]
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