Scientists are looking forward to drill into an impact crater, containing the leftovers of a killer asteroid off Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.

An asteroid stuck at the Chicxulub crater 66 million years ago, killing the dinosaurs and most of the life forms on Earth, as per scientific community. Scientists are hopeful that by drilling into the crater sediments, they can possibly get some information regarding how life there bounced back post the devastating impact.

On Thursday, Research Professor Sean Gulick of University of Texas Institute for Geophysics told CNN, “You can assume that at ground zero of this impact we are dealing with a sterile ocean, and over time life renewed itself. We might learn something for the future”.

A group of scientists from the University of Texas, the National University of Mexico and the International Ocean Discovery Program has decided to kick off the drilling process next month. The drilling process could take around 60 days to complete.

Gulick said that they have some hypothesis about what they will discover. They have estimated that they would see a period of no life in the beginning, and then life coming back and getting more diverse with the passage of time.

The drilling attempt is based on latest published analysis of commercial drilling data that displayed how a 6-mile-wide asteroid impact altered the physiology of the Gulf of Mexico. The asteroid caused the movement of 48,000 cubic miles of sediment, sufficient for filling around 17 Lake Superiors.

As per the scientists the impact resulted into earthquakes, loosening the sediment, and tsunamis that carried debris from areas like Texas and Florida, and dumped hundreds of feet of debris into the Gulf.

The findings appeared in the peer-reviewed Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth on February 5. They suggested that the sediment movement expanded over hundreds of miles, bringing Yucatan and the Caribbean Basin under its cover with rocks, sand, gravel, even boulders.