Science Daily has a story about a recently discovered impact crater. The crater was hidden in the Quebec wilderness near Lake Marsal in eastern Quebec. The impact that formed the crater dates to about 390 million years ago during the Devonian Period. It was found by an amateur astronomer, who noticed the structure while planning a camping trip in 2024.

In 2024, Joël Lapointe was preparing for a trip to the remote Côte-Nord region when a circular feature near Lake Marsal caught his attention on online satellite imagery. He wondered whether the depression could have been formed by an impact and reached out to specialists in Europe and North America.

Lapointe’s inquiry helped prompt a group of French researchers to identify the lake area as the center of a potential 11th known impact structure in Quebec at a 2024 meeting of the Meteoritical Society. The possibility eventually drew the attention of Gordon Osinski, a planetary geologist at Western University who also directs the Impact Earth database.

Osinski was skeptical at first, but the possibility was intriguing enough that he organized an expedition to the isolated location in October 2025.