{"id":225305,"date":"2025-11-18T01:18:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T07:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/worlds-largest-modern-crater-found-hiding-in-plain-sight-in-china"},"modified":"2025-11-18T01:18:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T07:18:38","slug":"worlds-largest-modern-crater-found-hiding-in-plain-sight-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/worlds-largest-modern-crater-found-hiding-in-plain-sight-in-china","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s Largest \u2018Modern\u2019 Crater Found Hiding in Plain Sight in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-largest-modern-crater-found-hiding-in-plain-sight-in-china.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nestled on a hillside in Guangdong Province near Zhaoqing City, the Jinlin crater managed to hide in plain sight until <a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1063\/5.0301625\">researchers identified<\/a> it as an impact structure.<\/p>\n<p>Only about 200 confirmed impact craters exist worldwide, making each discovery scientifically valuable.<\/p>\n<p>But this one stands out for its exceptional size and youth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nestled on a hillside in Guangdong Province near Zhaoqing City, the Jinlin crater managed to hide in plain sight until researchers identified it as an impact structure. Only about 200 confirmed impact craters exist worldwide, making each discovery scientifically valuable. But this one stands out for its exceptional size and youth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}