'It seems as if Captain Marvel herself ... punched the planet and put a dent into it,' scientist Arthur Trembanis said.
New images showing how the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll altered the landscape beneath have been revealed by scientists. The maps show shipwrecks and craters from the bombs, providing"new insights into the forces that shaped the seabed from the blast."
Tests took place at the atoll, a coral reef in the Marshall Islands, between 1946 and 1954. During this time, 23 nuclear weapons were detonated by the U.S. Dozens of ships were sunk during the test period, including battleships, submarines, aircraft carriers and destroyers.Earlier this year, Arthur Trembanis, from the University of Delaware, led a project to map the seafloor of Bikini Lagoon and its 12 shipwrecks, including one the size of the Titanic. Using historical data collected by the U.S.
They produced 3D scans of the seafloor and developed outlines of the shipwrecks and debris at the bottom of the lagoon. The site mapped was where tests took place during Operation Crossroads, which was where two nuclear weapons were detonated. One of the bombs, named Able, was dropped from a plane and exploded above the water, while the other, named Baker, was detonated 90 feet below the surface of the water.
"In short order, the team produced a detailed, three-dimensional map of the simulated nuclear battlefield, with every ship accurately pinpointed," James Delgado, now senior vice president of SEARCH, a cultural resource management firm in charge of the project, said in a statement. "This is the largest undersea battlefield surveyed and mapped, and it is a game changer in assessing major events that have left a profound footprint on the seafloor. What Art and the team have done is given the world its first-ever look beneath the sea into the heart of an atomic explosion and its aftermath."
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