From meteorites to the Brahmastra, no myth has gone untouched in regardance to the Lonar Lake, all known as, The Lonar Crater, which, today is a notified National Geo-heritage monument, located in the Buldhana district of Maharashtra in India.
Created by a meteorite collision impact during the Pleistocene Epoch, it is one of the only 4 known, hyper-velocity, impact crater in ballistic rock anywhere on Earth. Sitting inside the Deccan Plateau- a massive volcanic basalt rock created by eruption, some 65 million years ago, the lake’s diameter is calculated to be 1.2Km and is about 137m below the crater rim, which is almost 1.8Km in diameter.
The lake has made even NASA scientists and Geological Survey of India officials question their theories and wonder how it is possible that the lake is both alkaline and saline and how micro organisms which are rarely found anywhere else on earth are supported in this environment.
During the dry weather, when evaporation reduces the water level,…