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He saw a pit on Google Maps. It turned out to be a 390-million-year-old meteor crater

July 14, 2026

Joël Lapointe, stumbled upon what he thought looked like a suspicious pit in Quebec's Côte-Nord region while he was wandering with his Google Maps cursor in 2024. But it turned out to be a 390-million-year-old meteor crater — never before identified, until now.



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