crater

"There was quite a bit of debris there and it made quite a crater," he added.

There is nothing to show for this sum but a huge crater in a plot of valuable land in central Accra, previously occupied by state buildings, judges' homes and financial firms.

BepiColombo will attempt to determine what Mercury is actually made of, and whether water could exist in some of the planet's deepest craters.

It was in an area overlooking the caldera - the large crater of the volcano - and the boy would not have survived the fall, Ms Ferracane said.

The larger of the two, which created the Popigai crater, was about as wide as Everest is tall.