A meteorite created a huge crater on the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula 65 million years ago. It is believed that the impact was so strong that it caused the demise of the most of the dinosaurs along with 75 percent of all species on Earth. Scientists have now come up with a plan to drill into the middle of the crater.

The reason why it took so long for researchers to finally implement such a plan is the Chicxulub crater's center is inaccessible, buried under ocean waters and now thousands of feet of sediment. Scientists participated in a meeting last week in Merida, Mexico, to discuss the odds of expedition to get to the bottom of it.

The aim of the expedition is to sample the crater's "peak ring", or the elevated rock that circle the Chicxulub's center. Scientists at the University of Texas at Austin and Imperial College London will lead the expedition.

The team is required to drill from an offshore platform as the crater is in the middle of the ocean. This will help them collect a core sample stretching to 5,000 feet below the seabed to extract back the first core sample ever of the crater center's rock layer.

Researchers will be able to figure with the help of the entire core, stretching back 65 million years, that how recovery of marine life became possible after the catastrophic impact.

"The Chicxulub impact crater has been a remarkable scientific opportunity for the 20 years since it's been discovered", said Sean Gulick, of The University of Texas at Austin Institute for Geophysi. Scientists have also collected for the first time subsurface images from the offshore part of the crater to decide a spot for sampling.

The spot chosen by them is along the crater's peak ring, which is a mountain-like structure around the center of the crater.